To usher in the weekend, 4th Estate bring you our top picks from the web this week. These are the things that we’ve been viewing, reading and sharing in the office, and now we’re sharing them with you. As ever, … Continue reading →

Here are the five online things that are essential reading, watching and sharing this week. Chosen for you by us at 4th Estate. The Moby Dick Big Read is Philip Hoare’s leviathan challenge. He’s taken Moby Dick, the great unread American novel, … Continue reading →

Morrisons’ rearguard decision to allow its farmers to use GM feed looks spectacularly ill-informed and dumb, when Carrefour labels own-label meat and dairy products as GM animal feed-free, or ‘Nourri sans OGM’. If the world’s second largest retailer can guarantee … Continue reading →

The Emperor of All Maladies is longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Congratulations to Siddhartha Mukherjee, as the  Emperor of All Maladies has been longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award . The awards recognise the finest new writing talent who … Continue reading →

Sebastian Junger’s latest book, ‘War’, chronicles the time spent embedded with a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan, which is also the subject of the Academy Award nominated film ‘Restrepo’. Restrepo was created by Junger and the late film maker … Continue reading →