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25 years later, Brian Greene revisits the classic work that introduced legions to modern physics and the quest for the ultimate understanding of the cosmos.

How recalling songs, and the memories they make, shapes our brains and our selves.

A scuba-diving philosopher on the tangled sites where our lives start and end.

An exclusive look into Dash Shaw's latest graphic novel about the ways we see.

Nicole Rudick on the spiraling comics of Aidan Koch.

In an excerpt from his new book, Geoffrey Mak reflects on the certainties found in psychosis.

Four new poems from the writer's manuscript-in-progress.

An exclusive excerpt from the iconic scholar's new book.

How a mighty Caribbean artist, acclaimed only in death, built his Mount Olympus in a remote corner of the Lesser Antilles.

Three new pieces from the poet's collection in progress.

In archival readings from 1970, the poet reaches us in the midst of another necessary revolution.

An exclusive excerpt from the poet's forthcoming book.

The prolific queer icon in her own, never-before published words.

Four new pieces from the poet's debut collection.

On the existential watercolors of Ana Prvački.

The writer shares three pool-dark poems from her new collection.

A poem in three parts, inspired by Jay DeFeo and with paintings by Margaux Williamson.

In a new short story, Dame Margaret Drabble imagines a future shaped by discoveries at CERN, the international mecca for particle physicists.

A selection of poems from the author's new book, The Deletions.

True sexual liberation, the great writer argued, is about liberation from sex.

Glue frontman Sean DeLear’s teenage diaries reveal a queer coming-of-age.

To build better futures, we need time-tested wisdom.

Sterling Morrison on how the Velvet Underground found their name.

The worst of humanity lodged at a luxury hotel.

An exclusive excerpt from the poet's new book.

The splendors and spirits of carnival in Jacmel, Haiti.

Letters from a young astrophysicist to her mother.

An excerpt from the storied producer's debut book, The Creative Act.

Ticks are not your friends: adolescent desire and Eastern Washington.

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once talk to their favorite neuroscientist.

The abject pleasure of opening wide.

The Black aesthetics of the first Black Republic.

Hailing the mighty artists of Port-au-Prince, capital of history’s first Black republic.

In 1975, the artist collective Ant Farm drove a Cadillac into a wall of TV sets for the televised spectacle Media Burn. Excerpted from the book Media Burn: The Making of an Image, Steve Seid digs into the history of the event, raising questions about mass media and art in the public realm.

The future of our climate rests with our youth.