Before setting off on a new novel, the author must be fully equipped with a sense of his characters, must have a path in mind, and must be able to […]

The detective tries to be outside the story, hiding in his office with his bottle of whiskey in the desk drawer, yet he always ends up inside it. This alienated […]

The history of the novel in the 20th century is, among other things, a history of an argument with cinema—a very excited, nervous argument.

In the tradition of Jay-Z and Jean-Michel Basquiat, YouTube users create brilliant “vernacular moments”—moments filled with pure expressivity that don’t bother to think of themselves as art.

Jonathan Letham used to think he was a hipster—until he realized the amount of nastiness people intended when they used that word.

The author writes about neighborhoods in New York with such richness that they become characters unto themselves. Here, he discusses his favorite undiscovered hoods that haven’t yet made it into […]

There is a bogus script in American life that everything was better during some imagined time in the past. We tend to characterize change as either sweepingly utopian or dystopian, […]

A conversation with the novelist.

Sometime in the 21st century psychology will finally be considered a science. But until then political correctness will interfere with its search for truth.

The molecular biologist believes that a predisposition to schizophrenia is 100% genetic. Certain environmental factors, like smoking marijuana, can trigger the mental disorder.

Most doctors believe that different cancers require personalized therapies, but studying their common biochemistry could lead to a universal treatment.

The X-ray crystallographer contributed some crucial pieces of information to Watson and Crick’s search for the double helix. But because she likely had Asperger’s syndrome, she was almost impossible to collaborate with.

If you go into science, you should do so in order to win the Nobel Prize, not to earn a decent paycheck.

Synthetic life is just a close mimic to what already exists—it isn’t a truly new form of life, Venter’s human genome rival says.

The molecular biologist’s genome is the second to ever be sequenced. The results gave him some potentially life-saving information.

The pioneering molecular biologist recounts some of the major breakthroughs in the search for the structure of DNA.

The country’s fervent Christianity and respect for family is why “buggery” remains illegal in the country, says the prime minister. But “we are tolerant provided that homosexual lifestyle does not […]

“Leaders must be prepared to look at their people and say, ‘No look, you put me here to lead, this is the direction in which I think we ought to […]

A recent dispute over the extradition of drug kingpin Christopher Coke strained the country’s relations with the Obama Administration. Prime Minister Golding says they’re on the mend.

Prime Minister Golding says that drug-related crime in Jamaica and other countries in Latin America should not be seen in isolation: “It is a global problem. And therefore it’s something […]