Rubber Duck uses a second model from a different AI family to evaluate the primary agent’s plans, question assumptions, and ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

In 2006, Ryan Gosling, then in his twenties, starred in a tough-minded, low-budget drama called “Half Nelson,” in which he played a middle-school teacher hobbled by a crack addiction. Years later, the ...

We're long past the days when the Pixar brand was a reliable indicator of quality, when every other year or so would bring a new masterwork on the level of The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. In ...

Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses created the half-hour series, which also features Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Despite ...

A system of five models helps peer reviewers to write more constructive comments, but it is not yet known whether this strengthens the papers that are being reviewed. An artificial-intelligence coach ...

In the early 2000s, Hilary Duff soundtracked the era of butterfly clips and Laguna Beach for a whole generation of tweens and teens. Now, the singer-actress has returned to address her millennial ...

Beckoning audiences on a whimsical jaunt to always look on the bright side of life, the touring revival of “Spamalot” is especially winning for its unabashed determination to deliver on all manners of ...