In “A Washington Irving Sketch Book,” the essayist Phillip Lopate tries to rescue New York City’s original mythmaker from literary oblivion.

Scientists still aren’t sure what, exactly, causes a hangover—but that hasn’t stopped companies from marketing supposed antidotes.

Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians have also had significant victories in this year’s primaries—and they could prove more influential in the midterm elections.

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Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it.

A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.

She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “My Great-Grandmother's bible,” by Spencer Reece, and his own poem “The Bats.”

It wasn’t enough to sing of God’s love, Dolly Parton felt she had to share it. And share it she did.

Both sides agree that Clancy killed her children. But neither can offer a satisfactory explanation for why—and that vacuum has fuelled sympathy, vilification, and conspiracy theories.

With “It Ends,” Alex Ullom takes his place in a cohort of young horror directors who are translating the anxieties of their generation to the big screen—and upending the film landscape while they’re at it.

The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream.

It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.

In the city’s burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots.

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The FX series “Adults,” which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so.

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Solidot是至顶网的科技资讯网站，主要面对开源自由软件和关心科技资讯读者群，包括众多中国开源软件的开发者，爱好者和布道者。口号是“奇客的知识，重要的东西”。