In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan’s novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...

Darwin's Paradox! really taps into the joy and simplicity of a fun cartoon for its quirky alien invasion adventure. With a simple setup of an octopus clumsily trying to survive on land, it gives way ...

Leo takes a look at the monster DeepCool QuadStellar case - we don't think we have ever seen anything like it. Its big, has loads of room for hard drives and video cards, but its also heavy, big and ...

In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.

In early 1944 a group of Jewish volunteers left British-controlled Palestine to save their co-religionists in Europe. Officially serving as British special-operations troops, they parachuted behind ...

Imagine if the HAL 9000 was best friends with Dave in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and you’ll have an idea of what “Project: Hail Mary” feels like. Primarily an outer space-set two hander between Ryland ...

When Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, he envisioned it as a bold utopian glimpse of the future as it could be. But every good franchise needs a villain, and Star Trek initially stumbled a little.

Colby’s book, published in 2023 by ECW Press, chronicles the plight of her grandmother, Irina Nikifortchuk, who was abducted by the Nazis and made to labour at the Leica camera factory, and the ...

In “Monogamy,” a collection of a hundred and twenty-one aphorisms on coupling and uncoupling, the psychoanalyst and prolific writer Adam Phillips suggests that the faithful and the promiscuous aren’t ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...