When Simon Winchester, later a distinguished journalist and author, was a student at Oxford in the mid-1960s, awoke one morning, “the whole world seemed to have changed, had suddenly gone entirely and ...

NEW MARLBOROUGH — On a train to Beijing this summer, Simon Winchester opened a ChatGPT browser and wrote a simple prompt: “In the style of Simon Winchester, write 350 words about a cow.” Within 10 ...

In “The Breath of the Gods,” the prolific polymath takes on a force that’s powered much of human history. By Joshua Hammer Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. In his ...