Arts

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question humans have been asking for thousands of years—but when a bizarrely fast, cigar-shaped interstellar object jetted past Earth on its trip through...

The new year is finally here, and it’s bringing lots of debut authors to your bookshelves. The most anticipated debut books of 2021‘s first quarter include plenty of literary novels,...

Ever since Maurice Leblanc’s story, “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin,” appeared in print in 1905, readers have been enthralled with Leblanc’s tales of the gentleman thief. The Netflix series Lupin...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in...

Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke and folk icon Joan Baez are among those receiving this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, one of America’s most prestigious arts awards, which will be distributed...

Since learning of the death of the best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey, I’ve thought a great deal about the nature of Black storytelling. Black American novelists, in particular, tread a...

Sally Rooney’s third novel, and her first since the widely acclaimed Normal People, will be published on 7 September. Beautiful World, Where Are You, announced by Rooney’s UK publisher Faber...

Is our cult of masculinity destroying us? Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas’ latest young adult novel, is a meditation on just that: the problem of boys pretending to be men. The...

After a nine-year hiatus, our race to space has been reinvigorated. SpaceX has successfully sent NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. And for the first time, the United States...

Pope Francis said Saturday he will get a COVID-19 vaccination and declared it everyone’s moral obligation to get one. “I believe that ethically everyone should take the vaccine,” the pontiff...