In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon’s latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after ...

Keith Waldrop’s memoir of midcentury America is saturated by the religious fervor that gripped his mother. His childhood was ...

Who gets to name a newly discovered species is an unsettled question in the world of biology. Conflicts over taxonomy can ...

In contemporary Armenian discourse, few topics evoke as much raw emotion, deep-seated anxiety, and rigid gatekeeping as the ...

Rowan Jacobsen argues "In Defense of Sunlight" that moderation — not fear — should shape our attitudes toward exposure.

The Anniversary,” a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.

Ciaran Caron’s X+Y=K has arrived seven years after his death in 2019. This bravura work is helpfully subtitled ‘A Novel’, ...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures fall programming celebrates several anniversary milestones along with a focus on horror ...

“It is never a good idea to ignore the warning signs of reality.” So ends “A Good Virtue Gone Bad,” Chapter 1 of “Suicidal Empathy: Dying To Be Kind,” by Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist ...

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Inspiration. I recently watched the black & white movie, It Came From Outer Space. The 1953 movie slowly builds tension while the viewer learns about the aliens and their intention. The main ...