If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Sea of Tranquility opens on a would-be British colonizer named Edwin St. John ...

The last few years have seen a number of heralded literary novels that criss-cross time and geography in artistically daring ways, taking us from prehistory through high-tech futures, making ...

There is a small moment in Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, “Sea of Tranquility,” that you might miss: A man recalls, from his childhood, a moment when his mother glanced at a photo of the “Earth ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every novelist is in the business of managing cliché and the unreal. The first is necessary for a work to have ...

In order to truly appreciate Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, a reader should be familiar with her two previous efforts: the groundbreaking pre-COVID pandemic novel, Station Eleven, and 2020’s The ...

Even before there was late-night pizza delivery, people sat around debating the ultimate nature of reality. More than 2,000 years ago, Master Zhuang dreamed he was a butterfly, and Plato imagined ...

JACKSON, Wyo., February 26, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tranquility AI, Inc., a startup building AI technology solutions to enhance criminal justice investigations, announced today its emergence from ...