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Last year, Charli XCX lit a neon-green fire under the pop world with Brat -- a brash, chaotic album that redefined what pop could sound like in 2024. The summer became dominated by the British si ...

Middle-age metabolism. If there is a more ferocious and vindictive beast that can be encountered in the autumn of life, I pray I never encounter it. The cruel markers of bodily decline in the infancy ...

Alice sat in the darkness of the cabin, waiting for the door to open. On the island she had not been waiting for anything. She'd walked where she pleased, over sandy shore and through the forest ...

18. We get a little abstract and we make up a bunch of words and phrases in order to describe what Joan Mitchell was doing on the canvases she painted in 1964, a kind of annus mirabilis for Joan Mitch ...

In the age of modernity, we find ourselves confronting a familiar affliction: bleakness. Our lives are marked by disillusionment. We doom-scroll, our eyes glazed over, while once useful dopamine recep ...

Connecticut's leaders are considering a risky play: using taxpayer and pension funds to keep the WNBA's Connecticut Sun in-state. It may sound like an investment in community pride, b ...

By all accounts, the new Superman film has been a major success. Released on July 11, 2025, it grossed $122 million on its opening weekend, marking the biggest debut ever for a standalo ...

Combating our current scourge of loneliness and social isolation must be seen as a societal imperative. Platitudes about togetherness won't do; we need action items. A new survey ...

David Gergen was the right kind of fellow. Born in 1942 in Durham, North Carolina, his father chaired the mathematics department at Duke University, and served as director of a research office affilia ...

In a world that is, technically speaking, more connected than ever before in human history, Americans find themselves isolated, atomized, and without a feeling of greater purpose. Like a fish without ...