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.

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

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

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

From there, the graphic novel zooms out and back in time. It’s structured cinematically, with voice-over, pans, and quick ...

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

Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now he’s opening a new club called ...

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 ...

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