With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can see science-fiction writers have the uncanny ability to ‘predict’ the future. Here are six dystopian works that strike an unsettling note ...

Kate Whiting 23 Oct 2019

Book Club

5 book recommendations from the Frankfurt Book Fair

Must-reads from Frankfurt Book Fair CEO and President, Juergen Boos

Juergen Boos 18 Oct 2019

Book Club

Trailblazer by Marc Benioff - our November Book Club pick

The World Economic Forum's Book Club has just announced its November pick: Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

Beatrice Di Caro 18 Oct 2019

Social Innovation

Want to improve the world? Read these 6 game-changing books

Read these 6 game-changing books by award-winning social entrepreneurs which provide vital insights on how to improve the world

François Bonnici and Pavitra Raja 18 Oct 2019

Sustainable Development

This UN book club is teaching children about the Sustainable Development Goals

Books can open up a whole world to young readers – which is why the UN is running a book club to teach children about its Sustainable Development Goals. Here are five titles recommended s...

Kate Whiting 18 Oct 2019

United Kingdom

The Booker judges just broke the rules and awarded the prize to two authors. This is why

The judges couldn't choose between Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” - so they both won.

Marie-Louise Gumuchian 15 Oct 2019

Arts and Culture

These are the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk have both been honoured this year, after a controversy meant the 2018 prize was postponed.

Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard · Reuters 11 Oct 2019

Book Club

Tools and Weapons - an extract from Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne's book on the digital age

This excerpt is from Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne's "Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age". The book was chosen as the World Economic Forum Book Club's pick ...

Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne 09 Oct 2019

Book Club

Here are some of India's most celebrated authors

The World Economic Forum's Bookclub takes a look at some of India's best-loved writers.

Beatrice Di Caro 04 Oct 2019

Book Club

Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne - our October Book Club read

The World Economic Forum's Book Club has just announced its October pick: Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Microsoft executives Brad Smith and Carol Ann ...

Beatrice Di Caro 01 Oct 2019

Gender Parity

This machine read 3.5 million books then told us what it thought about men and women

This artificial intelligence read an astonishing 3.5 million books to discover the narrative around men and women. Women tend to be defined physically whilst men are illustrated by behavi...

Maria Hornbek · Futurity 30 Sep 2019

Book Club

Are these the 6 best science books of 2019?

Caroline Criado Perez is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Here's what the judges said about her book on gender bias in data - and th...

Kate Whiting 27 Sep 2019

Climate Change

A Planet of 3 Billion by Christopher Tucker – book extract

This extract from Tucker's latest book addresses the explosion in population growth since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Christopher Tucker 17 Sep 2019

Book Club

'The Power of Nunchi: the Korean Secret to Happiness and Success', an extract

This is an extract from Korean-American journalist Euny Hong's book The Power of Nunchi: the Korean Secret to Happiness and Success. It looks at the concept of nunchi: a "guiding principl...

Euny Hong 16 Sep 2019

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