Tim Brinkhof

For decades, the Netherlands' “no-nonsense” model of neoliberalism has been the poster child for free-market reforms. Yet for all the rhetoric of national unity, this model has forced long periods of austerity and the organized looting of public services.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa explains why the brain’s default mode network gives rise to costly rumination but also creative breakthroughs.

Three of the most talked about films at the moment— Obsession Backrooms , and The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act —couldn't be more different at first glance.

Musicology professor Jake Johnson argues that beneath the bright songs and happy endings of midcentury musicals lay the grief and anxieties of postwar America.

In the Hand of Dante is all over the place. The narrative advertised by its title, of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s struggle to write his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, competes for screen time with a neo-noir story in which a fictional version of Nick Tosches, the late author of the book on which this film is based, is recruited by a crime boss to authenticate the poem’s long-lost original manuscript.

What are some of the best-looking games of all time? Many examples that come to my mind are not from this generation, but rather the early 2010s: Metal

Crytek's hack-and-slash might have traveled to feudal Japan and Viking Iceland long before Ubisoft took them there.

The legendary city of Troy really existed, and the tale of the Trojan Horse might not have been the stuff of epic poetry.

While the events of the epic poem cannot be verified, much of its content corresponds with historical and archaeological evidence.

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