In her novel “Lost and Wanted” (Knopf, 316 pages, $26.95), Nell Freudenberger relates the momentous 2015 discovery by a team of physicists of a gravitational wave, a ripple in the fabric of ...

Fiction: Life Without Illusions in Crosby, Maine. The return of the tart-tongued Olive Kitteridge, who remains as brutally candid with herself as she is with others. By . Sam Sacks. Share.

Illusions can tell us much about how our brains work, but first we need to know how each one works, ... the ambiguities, instability, distortion, fiction, and paradox, plus their causes.

Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Yiyun Li about “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” her story from the March 17, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

My Foolish Illusion. Hosted by Bob Carlson Jan. 31, 2019 Health & Wellness. Listen 28 min MORE John Elder Robison spent his youth designing custom stage guitars for rock icons KISS. As an adult, ...

Whether this fictional town endorses baseball caps is rather innocuous. But paradoxes like the majority illusion apply concretely to our world, from the way we fight drug epidemics to how quickly ...

We can find meaning in how we fight it, but relying on our old illusions, assuming that we, as humans, will prevail, is dangerous. Life, for us and the virus, is about genes propagating themselves.

In 2019, I was hired as a science-fiction consultant by OpenAI. My job was to write stories about artificial intelligence alongside an early, internal version of GPT-2—an ancestor of the ...