Is a world where people date artificial intelligence (AI) instead of human partners a dystopia or a utopia? While Western works exploring human-AI relationships have been steadily released, a Korean ...

Theater of the Mind,” a huge long-term gamble for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is, in essence, a tour inside the skull of David ...

Freedom sounds simple until a society tries to practise it. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 'The Dispossessed' places one physicist between two worlds that claim to value liberty. His journey raises a troubling ...

Citizen surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised, even while similar technology is being deployed by ICE agents in the US and the IDF in Gaza Say cheese! A decision last week greenlighting ...

Over the past five decades, Toody and her dearly departed husband, Fred, have kept Portland’s music scene alive with their bands—Dead Moon, the Weeds, the Rats, Pierced Arrows, and several others—self ...