Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis star in Scarpetta, Prime Video's next big adaptation of a long-running and popular book series.

The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Two comic books originally sold on US newsstands for just 10 cents have sold for $13 million.

French art historian Thomas Schlesser is still adapting to life as a best-selling global author having written one of the ...

Gen X learned who we were while sitting in front of the VCR, rewinding the same moments until they stuck.

It started with a meme, back in 2019: a collage calling out trans people who wrote some pretty nasty tweets at Rowling for ...

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Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

I got a notification the other day: “Your screen time was up 261% last week, for an average of 7 hours, 15 minutes a day.” If you know me, you'll know this can only mean one thing. I’m reading again.

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a used bookstore, was the only bohemian in our family, and she revered Stein.