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Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul trying to tell us something about Meta?

The journal by Marilyn Kepler tells of a horrendous life for the Studeys, filled with abuse, severe beatings of family members and random robbery victims and arsons.

Sydney Halpern’s Dangerous Medicine shows that the abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.

From 1919 to 1934, socialist Vienna was guided by the "critical rationalism" and the pluralist, collaborative ethos of its thinkers and planners, whose influence endured long after they lost power.

With its sympathetic portraits of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is, in the end, yet another bland Hollywood biopic.

It was rare that I would walk down a street and look in through a window and want to be inside the room I saw there, I mean live in it, because other people’s furnishings and lighting arrangements disturbed me deeply, but on one occasion I did like what I saw, I liked it so […]

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims as part of a holy war.

Fifty years after its signing, the Declaration of Independence had deteriorated distressingly. A new book traces its subsequent graphic elaborations and the commissioning of the iconic facsimile we know today.

The New Zealand writer Janet Frame insisted on the distinction between her fiction and her autobiography, yet it was the fiction that crystallized her own isolation in psychiatric wards.

The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.

Though he began writing near the end of the twentieth century, the poet Reginald Shepherd remained an unapologetic modernist who believed firmly in the autonomy of art.

Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.

Jean Strouse’s Family Romance explores the relationship between the Anglo-Jewish Wertheimers and John Singer Sargent, who painted twelve portraits of them.

Rachel Cusk’s latest experiment with the novel seems too influenced by a style of abstraction she deployed more successfully in her Outline trilogy.

I know of only one pie-dish beetleactively pursuing a longer life    but there may have been    and probably are still othersdeterminedly engaged in the sameundertaking. Approaching the end    of its year on earth,    turning its flangeto edge off predators, combingnight ground for decaying    vegetable matter,    it considers its dietand becomes more particular.How decayed, what species of plant,    how rapidly consumed,    which morsels might […]

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Just as he was given to periods of melancholy and cheer, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories offer a constant back-and-forth between light and dark, town and wilderness, loneliness and society.

Put your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkin

This election will be decided not by another big popular vote but by the slenderest of margins in the Rust Belt battlegrounds.

The future of smarter robots may lie in combining neural networks with advanced computer vision.

Scholar Alison Habens tells us more about the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets.

If you’re exploring the frontier of known particle physics, examining neutron stars, which produce some of the most intense magnetic and gravitational environments in the universe, is a good place to start.

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be a few weeks away, but seems like someone didn’t tell StackSocial. Right now, the site has a power-packed Lenovo IdeaPad 5 for just $650. This is a part laptop, part tablet with a 14-inch touchscreen and 1TB of storage. The 360-degree design allows the keyboard to flip around on…

Randy Baker, 43, was momentarily pronounced dead Thursday by a really dumb EMT who apparently has no idea how to take a pulse.