A cook’s books: a food blogger’s recipes inspired by literature in pictures

Kate Young makes recipes for her virtual Little Library Cafe, reimagining meals from her favourite fiction and writing about the significance that each book has in her life. Here she picks a selection of her recipes, with quotes from the books. Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/gallery/2015/jul/09/cook-books-food-bloggers-recipes-inspired-by-books-in-pictures

Read it and beep: what robots will learn from our greatest literature | Stephen Moss

Robots can be enlightened and civilised if they just read out stories, were told. We asked an especially well-read android, HOMER16, what it made of 1984, Hamlet et al. An encouraging report from the Georgia Institute of Technology argues that it is possible to inculcate moral values into robots by exposing them to the fictions […]