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[ad_1] Chaos reigned this year. Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, Elon Musk remade Twitter in his erratic image,…

[ad_1] Tuning into Amazon’s J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power this summer kind of felt like boarding a yacht, or walking into a Four Seasons. This looks…

[ad_1] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a science fiction writer in possession of a convention panel must be in want of a question as to where all the…

[ad_1] Tree Abraham works as an art director in the publishing industry, so she considers herself a person who primarily designs books and not a person who writes them. However,…

[ad_1] Technology is exerting an ever-growing influence on our world. A cast including Facebook—or Meta—Google, and Apple, with leads like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Elizabeth Holmes, looms large in…

[ad_1] Out in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman named Rachel clings to the side of an oil rig. The wind whips her auburn hair…

[ad_1] It’s been a good year for cookbooks, almost as if authors had a couple of years of pent-up brilliance just waiting to burst forth. (I wonder why?) In fact,…

[ad_1] Still, in many cases, letting a computer impact the direction of a project, rather than craft a few choice sentences, can feel like giving the computer the reins when…

[ad_1] At the risk of sounding like a sanctimonious teenager on Booktok, let me humblebrag for a second: I’ve read nearly 100 books so far this year. Turns out it…

[ad_1] Obsidian Entertainment’s latest game, Pentiment, takes its title from the term pentimento, a change made by an artist while painting. Its origin is the Italian word pentirsi, which means…

[ad_1] I admiringly refer to myself as a cat lady. I’ve also spent nearly all of my years obsessed with witches in pop culture—Practical Magic and The Craft were on…

[ad_1] The tragedy of Alan Moore, if there is one, is that his 1980s comics work—Watchmen, V for Vendetta—has been perpetually misunderstood by an audience too eager to learn the…

[ad_1] In the early 2010s, brands began phasing out the plastic microbeads they’d been adding to toothpaste and face scrubs to boost their scrubbing power. Some of these products contained…

[ad_1] Dear reader, we write this to you from the rapidly chilling environs of Brooklyn, where the leaves are turning to gold and our eyes are turning to all the…

[ad_1] In some respects, Andor is a new frontier: a series spinning off from not only the Skywalker Saga but specifically one of the two Star Wars Story films (in…

[ad_1] Do you still play games on your own for fun? I haven’t, the last few years. That side of my brain—I’ve always been a person who had to have…

[ad_1] The book was in the works since 2016, I pitched it to Drawn and Quarterly in the summer of 2016. I took a year to write it. I took…

[ad_1] I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking: I know that the magnetic field extends out away from them. It…

[ad_1] When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Her doctors were flummoxed. They’d never seen a child so young develop…

[ad_1] Fantasy has always been the province of the bored housewife. Over the monotonous passing of hours and days, she crafts escapist visions that wise readers know will never be…

[ad_1] Given its title, it should come as no surprise that HBO’s new Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, is going to have a lot of goddamn dragons.…

[ad_1] When M.T. Anderson published the young adult novel Feed in 2002, there were no social media feeds to scroll in real life. Debuting two years before Mark Zuckerberg started…

[ad_1] By the time I meet Sayaka Murata, on a recent afternoon in June, the back of my linen dress is damp. It’s an oppressively humid summer day in Tokyo,…

[ad_1] If there was one thing you could always count on Game of Thrones for, it was graphic, horrific violence. (And sex.) There were dog maulings and skull squishes, giant…

[ad_1] Or we might want to have strong regulation around which AI systems are deployed, such that you can only use it if you really understand what’s going on under…