Frieze London 2025 has kicked off, and all eyes are on the art. All? For the architecture enthusiast, the Frieze entrance ...

Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief Common wisdom has it that science fiction can’t ...

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The science fiction convention WorldCon is returning to Seattle this summer after more than 50 years. The convention, which changes location every year, is best known for hosting the Hugo Awards, one ...

The descriptor “science fiction and fantasy” serves as an umbrella term for fantastical stories all the time, but if you look closer, the two genres contain multitudes. A sci-fi/fantasy movie might be ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Elon Musk, who’s taking his chainsaw to the federal government, is not merely a ...