Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

NASA’s DART Mission Offers Proof of Protection Against Asteroid Impacts

China’s Big Bet on Central Asia is Paying Off

Today in Supreme Court History: March 9, 1937

Homeland Security Helps Nab 80-Year-Old Man for Paying a Sex Worker

Ever behind the sunset

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink

Very Complete?

Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Still Useful

Epstein and the Globalization of Criminal Exploitation

A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

Harold Bloom made academics wince and general readers swoon. The asymmetry was the point

The film critic A.S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, or takedowns. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions

Sci-Fi Cloaking Technology Takes a Step Closer to Reality With Synthetic Skin Like an Octopus

The Birth of Light

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms

At a film screening Salvador Dalí, in a fit of envy, turned on the director: “Joseph Cornell, you are a plagiarist of my unconscious mind!”

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

California Promised to Reduce Wildfire Risks. It’s Fallen Short.