The Biography’ by Bob Spitz “Hundreds of books have been written about the Rolling Stones, but few sparkle quite like Bob ...
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...
The stars bring forlorn and feral energy, respectively, to Cal McMau's BAFTA-nominated debut feature, which is violently jolting if never exactly surprising. Slightly less persuasive, however, is the ...
A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers. The handsome new book Maintenance: Of ...
An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...
The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer after the paper discovered he used AI to help write a book review that inadvertently incorporated elements of a Guardian review on the same title. A ...
In 'Delusions: of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress,' the author and filmmaker points her pen at the people and places that have been causing her anguish lately. She just didn't think about what would ...
David in armor with blood trickling from his lip, flanked by two other soldiers, walks determined in House of David Season 2 Image via Prime Video Last year, House of David surprised viewers with an ...
“Theater of the Mind” is quite unlike anything else Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has produced in its first 100 years. That is unsurprising, because David Byrne’s infinitely curious collection of geeky ...
History, like gossip, is only interesting if you know the players. A series of unfamiliar names, dates and events has little meaning without such knowledge or, at least, an exceptionally wise and ...
When I awoke on January 11, 2016, to find that David Bowie had died, I was incredulous. Three days before, Bowie had released Blackstar, an album so audaciously experimental that it hardly evoked a ...
Revival got positive reviews when Stephen King released it, but not as many King fans have talked about its brilliance. This was King’s darkest story in years, and it was a callback to early King ...