What Shane Carruth seems to have done here is reinvent movies as a delivery system for narrative mystery instead of narrative data.

Anyone willing to attend to what J.M. Coetzee -- not Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John -- puts on the page will be rewarded with the extraordinary, exhilarating experience of tilting with enigmas.

Tips, shortcuts and hacks that make for a smooth ride.

Subscription services for natural products are taking off.

Anarchist feminist Emma Goldman famously said that she did not want to be part of any revolution that would not allow dancing. Likewise, not only men but quite a few women women want no part of a feminist revolution if it bans innocent compliments and silly off-color jokes.

The upper classes try to up their odds of disaster survival.

There's no way President Obama can fairly review each drone strike.

The novel, set in a post-apocalyptic, starvation-plagued North America, describes the decadent futuristic capital of the totalitarian dictatorship of Panem as "built in a place once called the Rockies." Suspicious, no?

The Hillary for President bandwagon looks and feels an awful lot like the Obama campaign while it was revving up in 2006. But we have traveled down Clinton Inevitability Road before.

The move to cut Social Security is certainly outrageous, and it's encouraging that a wide range of progressive groups are steamed at President Obama as never before. But this kind of outrage should have reached a "boiling point" a long time ago.

While the prospect of rationing is anything but appealing, many of us see much worse fates looming: a climate gone haywire maybe, or wholesale extinctions, or deadly pandemics.

The late Margaret Thatcher had steadfast confidence in the basic principles behind her policies.

In the age of YouTube and cameraphones, we're increasingly inundated with moving images. But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.

Singularity University may well be the prototype institution for revolutionizing education and entrepreneurship.

The GOP can't win in the long term without shifting its stances on marriage equality and immigration reform (and overall acceptance of diversity). Yet shifting on those issues will sunder the conservative coalition.

A tribute to scene-stealing heist films, including "The Killing" by Stanley Kubrick and "The Town" by Ben Affleck.

Laws and the governments that pass them are often evil. We expect our son, instead, to stand up for his rights and those of others -- even if that means breaking the law.

Green gifts, from frames, to blankets to bags and bike accessories.

To be young, technodouchey and shilly at SXSW.

Libraries I've been visiting lately are awash in almost as much noise and activity as a busy Starbucks. I do not think that Mr. Dewey would recognize these places.