Alex Beam

It’s painful to admit that the war in Ukraine has turned out as Putin might have expected.

The good life has been a problem since time immemorial. In the mythological Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve experienced perfect bliss, and it was a drag.

The American movie industry has essentially benched him. But I think Allen is a brilliant writer, and “Coup de Chance” is strikingly beautiful.

It dawned on me that I could provide a useful public service: A Field Guide to the American Bore.

History is more like a succession of random events to which we later assign certain meanings. Its complicated perspectives are hard to see, in real time or even in hindsight.

Suddenly plant sentience, or awareness, and the possibility of plant intelligence, and even legal rights for plants, are hotly debated concerns.

The Epsteins are simultaneously great and commonplace.

Dogs have been on a heady run of late, no pun intended.

LOTR is a work of literature, not propaganda. It belongs to no faction or ideology, despite fans’ and critics’ insistence on shaping it to their will.

Where would you rather live? In Trump’s bleak dystopia or in Harris’s world, nurturing a sliver of hope for a better future?