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Warning: major spoilers ahead for the ending of Conclave. “If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery and therefore no need for faith,” Ralph Fiennes’s...

In the three short months since her husband joined the Republican presidential ticket as Donald Trump’s running mate, Usha Vance—former registered Democrat, according to The New York Times—has appeared to...

Hotel rooms across New Orleans are at a premium as Swiftie fans flock to The Big Easy to experience the sold-out Eras Tour, and one fan has booked 191 rooms....

At a rally in September, Donald Trump took a break from talking about Arnold Palmer’s penis and telling various racial and religious groups to get their heads “examined” to plug...

Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel Absolution works as both a prequel and a sequel to his “Southern Reach trilogy” — appropriate, considering the slippy, surreal lineage of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Only...

Even the most casual of BookTok users know Ana Huang’s name. Huang, 33, is the bestselling author of the “Twisted” and “Kings of Sin” series. She has published twelve novels...

A Texas county’s decision to reclassify a historical account of Indigenous colonization as fiction has sparked outrage among anti-censorship advocates, book publisher Penguin Random House and the wider literary community....

BRUSSELS — Germany has long been the European Union’s penny pincher par excellence — a paragon of fiscal rectitude in contrast to its spendthrift neighbors. But now its insistence on...

BRUSSELS — Belgium is reaching peak surrealism. A man who has spent his entire political career trying to break up the country is now on track to become its prime...

“Have you any experience with patients who suddenly understood something,” writes Jenny Slate in her new essay collection, Lifeform (Little, Brown), “and then even though they had other things to...