December 11, 2017

From The New Yorker:

The differences between Updike and Roth are obvious: Wasp and Jew, poet and tummler.

From The Economist:

In 2016 African tech firms raised a record $367m. Although paltry by the standards of Silicon Valley, this is helping to stimulate the setting up of firms such as Flutterwave, a Nigerian payments company, and Zipline, which uses drones to deliver blood to clinics in Rwanda.

From The Economist:

"The poverty gap is a technology gap," says Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, Ghana's science and technology minister.

From The Guardian (Penelope Lively on "The book that changed my life"):

Andrew Lang’s Tales of Troy and Greece. I read it again and again when I was nine, 10, 11 – this is where I learned about story, and drama.

From The Guardian (Penelope Lively on "The book I wish I’d written"):

The Inheritors by William Golding: brilliantly imagined and infinitely sad.