Some of the best-selling books this month are adult fiction and nonfiction, young adult literature, and poetry. The latest BLK ...

Beyond the window lies a blue planet. Gray clouds hang silently over those small island nations. The electromagnetic navigation monitor occasionally "Beep... static ...

Earlier this year, a YouTube video began to make the rounds of social media and music blogs. It features two figures in black and white polkadots that extend from their clothing to cover their hands ...

Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas has become a hotbed for alien rumors, with some residents believing an offshore UFO base protects them from hurricanes. (Gobierno de Ciudad Madero) So, it’s not completely ...

The Interior Department’s effort to root out “negative” portrayals of American history at national parks has instead become a forum for criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the National ...

The setup for the show is that we watch an advice columnist teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and despair, who is searching for one scrap of hope that he receives a letter that is not “easily ...

In the early nineteen-eighties, when Kazuo Ishiguro was starting out as a novelist, a brief craze called Martian poetry hit our literary planet. It was launched by Craig Raine’s poem “A Martian Sends ...

In Amy Berryman’s clever and touching new play “Alien Girls,” college roommates and aspiring writers Carolyn and Tiffany form a “best friends for life” bond that seems unshakeable until that ...

Ancient Greek thought presents a cosmos filled with extraterrestrials, where gods, souls, and beings inhabit the Moon, stars, and even other worlds. Credit: Ale RaFlo, wikimedia commons CC BY SA 4.0 ...

At the end of the introduction to her 2023 translation of Homer’s Iliad, classicist Emily Wilson lays out the coming experience in no uncertain terms: “You already know the story. You will die.

This essay is the introduction to Chocky by John Wyndham. The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics. I was an avid John Wyndham reader throughout the 1950s, when he published the novels for which ...

Spoiler alert! We’re discussing the ending of the concert film “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” (in theaters now). Come back later if you haven’t seen it yet. Elvis Presley begat a slew of admiring ...