Across neuroscience, psychology and fringe physics, a provocative idea is gaining new language: that the human mind might be ...

If you have ever been in therapy, you probably know that moment when, all of a sudden, something clicks. A former patient of mine (who has generously given me permission to use their words in print) ...

Abstract ideas rarely fail because they are false; they fail because they are hard to grasp. Across history, deep thinkers ...

These are the contours of the contemporary domestic thriller, a niche that has come to dominate every form of narrative entertainment by, for, and about women. At first, its proliferation seemed to ...

Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have ...

The story of Dracula has been adapted countless times, but Luc Besson's take makes major changes to Bram Stoker's original ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella riffed on some famous lines from tech leaders past this week in an appearance at the World ...

Have you ever heard someone describe their day as “a nightmare” or said that someone has a “heart of gold”? These aren’t literal descriptions—they’re metaphors, one of the most powerful tools in the ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

Scripture uses a wealth of images for the church. Shall one say to the other, “I have no need of you?” As much as we exert control over our words, our words can exert a kind of control over us. This ...