Kameron Austin Collins is a film critic who has written for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. His puzzles have appeared in the ...

Is M.I. hopping our guardrails? If unchecked, it can lead to “recursive self-improvement,” such as dyeing a “fun streak of ...

Scott’s decision to self-publish could be seen as a protest against her ex-husband’s company—or as a sign of how profoundly ...

In your story “ A Very Safe Place ,” a boy and his father, in Singapore, find a man on the beach who has clearly swum to the island in the hope of establishing a better life. Father and son take the ...

A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still ...

Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting ...

Test engineers stage reality, sometimes by extreme means, to make sure airplanes don’t fall apart, children can’t open pill ...

In 1976, the artist behind the “Nancy” comic was slighted on “S.N.L.” A new Off Off Broadway show tells the tale of the day ...

A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another ...

After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the ...

Two guys created a compass that points to the restaurant’s Times Square location. On a trek rivalling the Odyssey—and with ...

In “I Am Tony,” a retrospective at the New Museum, the artist takes his remixing of the past to its outer limits.