From the daily newsletter: celebrating the milestone birthday of one of the magazine’s most lucid profile writers.

Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that ...

The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

In James Cameron’s latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na’vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of ...

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This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our ...

From the daily newsletter: a reflection on the timelessness of the novelist on her two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday today.

IT is said that Christmas has become too commercial—as if in Early Christian times it was just commercial enough—but the real ...

On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse.

In James Cameron’s latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na’vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of ...

You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder ...

In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman ...