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SpaceX Is About Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction
Elon Musk delivers remarks ahead of the SpaceX IPO debut on Friday. Musk focused on how unlikely SpaceX's success seemed, the goal of making humanity multi-planetary, and inspiring…
Steven Spielberg’s Rip-Roaring New Movie Is a Monument to the Power of Watching Something Together
Disclosure Day is part crowd-pleasing chase movie, part highly personal meditation on a lifelong obsession.…
Sex, weed and a secret marriage fueling intense legal battle over trendy SoHo pot shop: ‘a fictional narrative’
Jennifer Tzar — who won funding for her Soho-base dispensary after she was jailed for selling weed illegally in 2011 — is accused of misspending $230,000 of the loan, including on …
Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles Says She’s ‘Not Going Anywhere,’ Calls Reports Of Her White House Departure ‘Fiction’
'See you Monday'…
Susie Wiles shoots down ‘fiction’ she’s planning to quit White House in fiery rebuke
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles forcefully rejected a Friday night report alleging she plans to step down after the November midterms, slamming the story as a “piece of fict…
Book of Cron Job [fiction]
Code of conduct.…
A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction
As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a c…
The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators
So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross…
Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile
Written in breathless multilingual prose, this coming-of-age meets state-of-the-nation novel is an incredible literary performance…
A Conversation About Civilization Across Four Fictional Worlds
Historical fiction often shows people having to carry bunches of their skirts to walk around — was it ever the case that everyday dresses were *that* long and ungainly, or is that just Hollywood nonsense?
RFK Jr. outlines plan to prevent ‘science fiction nightmare’ of Lyme disease
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a sweeping set of new initiatives to improve prevention and treatment of tick-borne diseases, including the chronic effects of…
The nine books our critics couldn't put down in May
Sweet teen love, gay football stars, alien abductions and a murderous PhD student bent on revenge — this month's best new releases have it all.…
Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren't Remotely Ready for AI
They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations?…
Why Pope Leo XIV’s AI warning has everyone talking about the Butlerian Jihad from ‘Dune’
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical warns against AI's dehumanizing effects, echoing Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad from 'Dune.'…
StoryScope: Investigating Idiosyncrasies in AI Fiction
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in t…
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba…
The Best Books of 2026 So Far
Nothing quite beats the thrill of a new book season. In that spirit, we present to you the best books of 2026.…
15 plants that are stranger than any science fiction
Sepideh Moafi Addresses ‘The Pitt’ Fan Fiction, Toxic Fandom and ‘Completely False’ Online Rumors About Noah Wyle Feud
Sepideh Moafi shuts down online feud rumors involving Noah Wyle, discusses "The Pitt" toxic fandom and confirms she's in Season 3.…
Forget Robinson Crusoe, this witty new retelling is undeniably brilliant
Francesca de Tores’ second historical novel, Cast Away, achieves something truly remarkable.…
The First Reactions to Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Are Here
A new trailer for the film, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is also here. The film releases June 12.…
New India Foundation’s book fellowship to go annual starting 2026
The New India Foundation (NIF) Book Fellowship, which has been awarded once every two years so far, will move to an annual cycle beginning in 2026. Applications will now open ever…
Soviet Cosmonauts Trained at Star City as They Raced to Beat America to the Moon. Now, a New TV Series Imagines What Happened Behind the Base's Walls
Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the show is told from the Soviet perspective…
5 Must-Listen Nonfiction Audiobooks
These audiobooks are perfectly narrated by their authors, and will take you all the way from ancient Greece to Apartheid South Africa.…
8 Spooky Queer Folk Horror Books
If you can't get enough of folk horror, don't miss these eight unputdownable queer folk horror books.…
Love, burnout and literary scandal: This week’s best new books
Our reviewers cast their eye over 10 new fiction and non-fiction releases.…
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams review – twisted love story from a cult writer
Williams follows her prize-winning debut with a gothically overstuffed tale of a cynical young woman in a crumbling university town…
Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading
“Many Worlds,” by Ayşegül Savaş
Wasn’t it the case that all friendships involved some amount of attraction? It was the engine of curiosity, the mystery that propelled any relationship forward.…
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Many Worlds”
Ayşegül Savaş reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.…
30 years ago, these 15 industries were science fiction
Elon Musk could earn $1 trillion if SpaceX hits ‘science fiction’ targets
To get the maximum payout, the world’s richest person would need to achieve milestones that include establishing a permanent human colony on Mars.…
What to read this weekend: The new Image Comics miniseries, Of the Earth
Here’s what we recommend this week.…
Looking for the finest space-based science-fiction games
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Brian Johns goes cosmic.…
Why ‘Navalny’ Oscar Winner Daniel Roher Moved to Fiction for the Crowdpleasing ‘Tuner’
Daniel Roher's 'Tuner' wowed audiences on the fall festival circuit and marks the emergence of an assured filmmaker as well as a new star.…
AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.
Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.…
Director Mark Cousins Brings Epic 16-Chapter Story Of Nonfiction Cinema To Cannes, Says “Documentary Kills Fascism”
Director Mark Cousins unveiled two chapters of his epic 'The Story of Documentary Film' at the Cannes Film Festival.…
Bruce Balfour's favorite science fiction novels about Mars colonization
How to use AdultFriendFinder’s Sex Stories feature — vet your next sexting partner
Many an AFF connection has been made by two adults bonding over their shared love of erotic fiction.…
TIL the first known feature-length narrative film to break the fourth wall was 1918 silent film, Men Who Have Made Love to Me, where star Mary MacLane played a fictionalized version of herself and would step out of narrative scenes to address camera
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”…
IBM could be a big winner as quantum computing moves out of the science-fiction realm
Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’
The exhibition at London's Barbican, featuring the voices of Diego Luna, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright and more, invites us into imaginary worlds to provide "deep emotional connec…
AI can write prize-winning fiction. Now what?
With SynthID, Google is cleaning up the AI mess it helped make, but Omni power makes it clear we'll never get ahead of generative AI fiction
Can the companies that are building truth-bending AI models also be the same ones to help police the fake content?…
Angus Taylor takes shelter with a weird mob from a fictional past
Liberal leader Angus Taylor is resorting to misty-eyed nostalgia in his attempt to both emulate and outdo One Nation’s approach to immigration.…
Secrets, survivors and scams: This week’s essential reading
From decades-spanning queer romance and Melbourne noir to the Titanic and the politics of drugs, we review the latest fiction and non-fiction releases.…
5 New Paperback Nonfiction Releases Coming Out in the Summer of 2026
Check out the latest major James Baldwin bio, Black Women at the crossroads, a memoir about Indian boarding schools, and more.…
New Asian American Historical Fiction for AAPI Heritage Month
Commemorate AAPI Month this May with four new Asian American historical fiction books from new and bestselling authors.…
‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Gives Himself a Hard Time, and It’s Thrilling
Pedro Almodóvar’s film about two fictional directors ends up brutally interrogating the Spanish auteur’s own work…
Tension’s palpable and the past is always present in County Road Six
Ontario author Kevin Hardcastle’s latest novel fictionalizes his home region of Simcoe County…
Bill Belichick confirms feud with Tom Brady was fiction, praises his quarterback's leadership from day one
Bill Belichick confirmed the "Brady vs. Belichick" feud narrative was entirely made up by media, saying he agrees 100% it never existed between him and his former quarterback.…
Smirk Announce New Album Speculative Fiction: Hear “Dog Years”
Smirk is the project of Nick Vicario, a Los Angeles musician who’s been making retro-filtered punk rock for quite a while now with albums like 2021’s LP and 2022’s Material. The cu…
Ice Pond: An Ice Fishing Adventure - Snails Arcade - A cozy winter fishing game with cute animals and fictional fish
Israel-Lebanon ceasefire a dangerous fiction in the war against Hezbollah - analysis
Negotiations detached from the realities on the ground do not end terrorism. Rather, they create space for the terrorists to adapt, regroup, and strike again.…
Narrative, non fiction, medieval history books?
Weike Wang on Recurring Dreams and Loneliness
The author discusses her story “The Dreamdrive.”…
Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”
The author name reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.…