The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science ...

I have a certain fondness for the gym bro. There’s a puppy-like, amateurish idea that you can decimate your body and push it to failure with the obliteration of the mind. It makes intuitive sense that ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

It’s much harder to work in an active shooter and have it mean anything, because an active shooter is by definition a nonsense element.” ...

Encinitas therapist Kristen Hornung has self-published her first book of poetry, “Too Jagged to Hold”. The deeply personal collection takes readers on her long and ongoing journey of recovery from ...

The former U.S. Poet Laureate, who has a new book out this week, recommends five texts that interrogate how we narrate the past.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on people and society. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,023 adults from ...

In recent years, my participation in the arts has become deeply intertwined with my consumption of its criticism. Navigating to the culture section on my laptop or flipping to “The Critics” pages in ...

Russia’s incursion into Poland’s airspace was a deliberate test of NATO’s defense systems and a warning to the West to end its aid for Ukraine, an expert on the conflict said. While Moscow claims that ...