“Thrilled to Death” is a selection of Lynne Tillman’s fiction from the 1980s to the present day. How do you know you’re ...

Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe ...

There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru Brahmin’ (in fact ‘two ...

Now on view at The Cheech in Riverside, a retrospective features dozens of pieces from the pioneering Chicana artist Amalia ...

Like any mother, I would gladly contract every plague known to nature if it would spare my children pain. But my subject here ...

A commonly-used design for the Vatican flag, flown frequently even at the Vatican itself, contains a small but easily-noticed ...

The word and the world jolts, short and quick, grabbing for a chance ... when I’ve been walking under hot sun, or the way the earth smells after rain. During evenings in the summer, when my ...

The U.K. Christian right is increasingly drawing on a U.S.-forged playbook. It is also drawing on U.S. money. But the U.K. has its own cadre of super-wealthy individuals committed to investing their ...

This feeling is inherent in Hamilton author Amanda Leduc’s novel, Wild Life. It’s a book full of strange towers of fire, ...

But spring means rebirth and renewal — and also an opportunity to enjoy a good read on a park bench, in your backyard, or ...

When he died on Tuesday at age 65 of pneumonia, everyone had their image of Val Kilmer at hand to personally mourn. There was ...

Believers like Garry Tan are flipping the script in the venture capital world, making faith matter just as much as the ...