A lot of people loved it, a lot of people hated it, and a lot of people (including Rachel Maddow) just didn't know what to think after Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair at the Republican ...

This summer, I was coming back to work after a long weekend in Boston when my boss mentioned that she listened to an interesting podcast. The podcast addict that I am, I had to find out more about it.

Early in “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” Ruth Ozeki’s heady new novel, an off-course bird bangs into a classroom window: “THWACK!” The middle schoolers are stunned. One is particularly upset. Benny ...

In What the Fud? a conversation between a woman and a plastic swan provides a humorous meditation on our feelings about everyday objects, and especially, junk.

Wikipedia has dates and facts. If you want history to come alive, take a virtual tour with Timothy "Speed" Levitch, the offbeat star of Hulu's historical travel show Up to Speed. In the first season ...