This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'naïve' ...
Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
He is drawn to Christianity’s strangeness. For Cave, going to church is an act of defiance: What I like about church is that it stands defiantly against the gods of reason and rationality.
In a directorial career defined by alluring strangeness, Guy Maddin’s new comedy is radical for being almost … normal. Credit...Grant Harder for The New York Times Supported by By Mark Binelli ...