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 ...

On a Wednesday morning, between the hiss of an espresso machine and muffled nearby chatter, Gabriel Furshong settled down at a table. There was a blue ceramic cup of coffee to his left – a crinkled ...

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 ...

Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan ...

Keystone Swiss author Ilma Rakusa has dedicated herself to the present instead of looking back. She began her new book "Where is the Light" when Russia invaded Ukraine. It is full of anger, knowledge ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

Dan Trachtenberg finds fresh excitement in the popular (if often-disappointing) ’80s franchise, pairing Elle Fanning's 'Alien'-style synth with a runt Predator with everything to prove. In “Predator: ...

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If “Truth Hurts” had a thesis, it’d be this: being human is hard, and being honest might be even harder. Resident Alien Season 4 Episode 4 strips away the usual layers of absurdity just long enough to ...