Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

Flamekeeper. Mirrorwalker. Echo architect. These are some of the fantastical titles that people have assigned themselves after days, weeks, or months of simulated conversations with AI chatbots. David ...

“Book of Lives” offers two distinct versions of the esteemed novelist: “Peggy Nature” and “the brooder.” By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

Since Saw first hit theatres in 2004, audiences have been intrigued, disgusted, curious, and terrified in equal measure. For horror fans looking for their next franchise watch (or rewatch), these are ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Artificial intelligence is powering a comeback across much of this hard-hit city. That recovery isn’t doing much to stop its biggest mall from imploding. San Francisco Centre resembles a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

After Saw IX co-writer Patrick Melton revealed that “inter-squabbling between producers and Lionsgate” caused the sequel to stall out, Koules confirms that he and Burg couldn’t quite get on the same ...

"I want to play a game." Chances are if you hear that phrase, especially coming from a demented puppet on a toddler tricycle, you're in for a game where the stakes are life and death. Well, mutilated ...

“He retains a sharp memory of the trap, last summer, his forefoot clamped and the utter terror, and of later waking, woozy, and the awful, human scent all over him, and the thing awkward around his ...

We told you first that Blumhouse is buying Twisted Pictures‘ share of the prospective rights of Saw. That deal, led by CAA Evolution, has now closed. As we previously reported, this puts the future of ...