His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the ...

Tayari Jones’s ‘Kin’—a nuanced portrait of family, friendship, and race—comes in at No. 1 from Amazon’s wide selection of ...

You’ve just loaded into Super Mario Bros. for the first time. You start to run forward across a brick floor when a brown mushroom trots into view. You’re not expecting it, so you smash right into it.

It’s always a drag when a game you are looking forward disappoints, but it’s even sadder when it shows you exactly how it didn’t have to at the same time. Plenty of games miss the mark in some way, ...

Perhaps because he’s so cute and marketable, Yoshi’s adventures have been designed for a younger and younger audience for the last several years. 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS was not out-of-step with the ...

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 ...

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 ...