Why Are We Not Better Than We Are

What a Canada–Europe Alliance Needs

A History of the Novel in Britain

Planning system ensures a robot’s flight path will remain collision-free

Do Insects Matter More than People?

Brazil’s Election Debacle Is Lula’s Fault

William T. Vollmann's publisher insisted he shorten his novel. “I said, ‘I cut it, but I’m really sorry but unfortunately, it’s like 400 pages longer now”

Why don’t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

‘China Shock’—or Minor Perturbation?

Perceptions

The Rent Is Frozen. Heating Costs Aren’t.

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

What History Tells Us About the AI Debate