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This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

For the characters in Lee Lai's "Cannon," home is the place most resistant to real emotion.

From the daily newsletter: a reflection on the timelessness of the novelist on her two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday today.

Nick Allen's venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now he's opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution.

On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

In James Cameron's latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na'vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of wonderment flattens out.

In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts--from Sarah Snook's one-woman "Dorian Gray" to Michael B. Jordan's twin turn in "Sinners"--made their mark.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?