Books by Madhumita Murgia
“Murgia is, in theory, very positive towards technology, but she’s looking at the dark underbelly of what it means across the world, for those who are what she calls ‘slaves to the AI revolution,’ whose job it is to monitor social media, day in day out, or who are labelling images of roads so that AI can learn what a street sign is and what a piece of tarmac looks like. She also looks at some of the ways in which it can be a positive, always from the human side of the story. I came away never wanting to accept cookies again. It’s essential reading.” Read more...
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist
Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian
Interviews where books by Madhumita Murgia were recommended
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by Laura Cumming -
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A Flat Place
by Noreen Masud -
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia -
4
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein -
5
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles -
6
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Since 1996, the Women’s Prize has been awarded the best new novels by female writers. This year, for the very first time, an equivalent prize has been established for female nonfiction writers—whose books receive less coverage and lower advances than those of their male counterparts. Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and chair of the inaugural judging panel, introduces us to the six books that made the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction shortlist.
