This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Though we know about this loophole from the opening pages of the first volume, it is more ...

Science fiction movies are notoriously popular for not providing audiences with neat explanations at the end. For me, that is exactly what makes them fun. If science itself encourages debates, there ...

In her new book, Doing Valuable Time, philosopher Cheshire Calhoun focuses on time and meaning in life. Our time, which is our life, is limited. From birth to death we live only for several decades ...

Between Mission: Impossible and Top Gun getting their grand finales and his coming return to dramatic films, the past few years have been great for Tom Cruise. In light of the biggest successes of ...