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At home with the Musk brood.

Being an older parent, just like my dad.

The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate.

We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the "Murderbot" series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness.

Celine Song's romantic tale, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, offers thrilling dialogue but some puzzling silences.

In "Constellation," the photographer's largest-ever show in New York, images linger in the strange space between intention and effect.

"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.

Also: Paul Simon goes on tour, Taylor Mac adapts Molière, and more.

Toying with democracy.

What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly "normal nature" of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.