Year: 2024

At its best, a presidential biopic can delve into the monomaniacal focus—and potential narcissism—that might drive a person to run...

In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The...

Jimmy O. Yang had been trying to make it as an actor for years—cobbling together bit parts in network sitcoms,...

“On the record? We’re as calm as calm can be,” a European official assured me last week when I called...

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Since the June release of her critically acclaimed album Brat, Charli XCX has been making appearances exuding its titular ethos....

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This essay contains spoilers.The new movie Conclave is a faithful adaptation of Robert Harris’s 2016 novel—and an absurd portrait of...

This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine.About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into...