For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and ...

Steven Spielberg has always been a filmmaker for the masses. With Jaws, he effectively invented the summer blockbuster as we ...

There is something quietly defiant about a short novel. It refuses to waste your time. It walks in, sits down, and within a ...

Prior to his death in 2019, psychology professor Robert Provine spent decades studying laughter. His approach was to observe the phenomenon as an alien who’d just landed on Earth would. His goal? To ...

Sudden leave of absence... even though I had prepared so many handover documents. My leave was decided before I knew it, and although I distributed and handed over tasks to various departments, it was ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder (64-18) and San Antonio Spurs (62-20) have already delivered an instant classic series in the first postseason meeting between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Victor Wembanyama.

Giant creatures have loomed over cinema since the earliest days of special effects, and they keep returning with new designs, new scales, and new ways of challenging human ingenuity. These towering ...

Written by a heartbroken 21-year-old musician, the song found new life through Joe Cocker and went on to inspire dozens of ...