Mark O'Connell, author portrait
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Mark O'Connell

MARK O'CONNELL is the author of To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New YorkerThe New York Review of BooksThe New York Times Magazine, and The Guardian.
Notes from an Apocalypse
To Be a Machine

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Notes from an Apocalypse
To Be a Machine

Books for Black History Month

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