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The subject made me pick up Kate Devlin’s new book, Turned On: Science, Sex, and Robots. Maybe it made you click on this re..

About the book: Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2006 history chronicles the Pilgrims’ journey from its genesis in turn-of-the-17th-century Britain t..

In Back to Our Future (2011), David Sirota argues that G.I. Joe is in significant part responsible for indoctrinating children to accept a..

When computers failed to bring the world to an end at the dawn of 2000, everyone decided that Y2K fears had been overblown. They were, in ..

Everyone says “humbling” these days when they actually mean “flattering.” If you want to genuinely talk about “humbling,” think about how,..

Between Jane Austen’s two best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice is having a moment while Sense and Sensibility is taking a breather. Lizz..

Older gen-x fans and writers of Star Wars novels like to wax nostalgic about the late ’70s, when books like Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and..

Even after listening to Jason Fry’s Last Jedi novelization, I was a little fuzzy on the post-Empire politics of the Star Wars universe. Wh..

If Solo: A Star Wars Story is disappointing at the box office, it can’t be blamed on the crew at Penguin Random House Audio, who’ve been c..