Beyond the window lies a blue planet. Gray clouds hang silently over those small island nations. The electromagnetic navigation monitor occasionally "Beep... static ...

When wildfires blazed through Los Angeles last year, displacing tens of thousands of people, the local National Council of Jewish Women affiliate was well positioned to help. The national nonprofit’s ...

Earlier this year, a YouTube video began to make the rounds of social media and music blogs. It features two figures in black and white polkadots that extend from their clothing to cover their hands ...

The Interior Department’s effort to root out “negative” portrayals of American history at national parks has instead become a forum for criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the National ...

Jean Paul Sartre famously asserted in NO EXIT that “Hell is other people.” Liz Duffy Adams probably doesn’t buy into that theory, even though her world premiere play, DEAR ALIEN, may be compared to ...

In Amy Berryman’s clever and touching new play “Alien Girls,” college roommates and aspiring writers Carolyn and Tiffany form a “best friends for life” bond that seems unshakeable until that ...

Ancient Greek thought presents a cosmos filled with extraterrestrials, where gods, souls, and beings inhabit the Moon, stars, and even other worlds. Credit: Ale RaFlo, wikimedia commons CC BY SA 4.0 ...

At the end of the introduction to her 2023 translation of Homer’s Iliad, classicist Emily Wilson lays out the coming experience in no uncertain terms: “You already know the story. You will die.

This essay is the introduction to Chocky by John Wyndham. The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics. I was an avid John Wyndham reader throughout the 1950s, when he published the novels for which ...

Spoiler alert! We’re discussing the ending of the concert film “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” (in theaters now). Come back later if you haven’t seen it yet. Elvis Presley begat a slew of admiring ...

India's first homegrown cosmic dust detector, the Dust EXperiment (DEX), has uncovered a relentless bombardment of microscopic interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) slamming into orbital instruments ...