Oscar nominations often say more about the people who vote for them than they do about the movies themselves.

Your Dean Strang obsession might not be so silly after all.

Ed Sanders tells the story of Sharon Tate's life and legend in a new biography—but raises more questions than he answers.

For Bowie, art was inauthenticity all the way down.

How "they" is going from plural to singular.

In this previously unpublished essay, Aaron Swartz sought an explanation for the persistent—and possibly deliberate—failures in our school system.