We’re all very online because that’s the place to be. And it’s unclear whether the internet has been our saving grace during this particular era of social distancing or whether it has plunged us into ...

There's something slightly disorienting that takes place when a word is said over and over again. Platypus. Platypus. Platypus. The more the word is repeated, the more it loses its meaning while ...

Some years ago, I was interviewing a Columbia neurologist for a potential article on imaging. After a tour of her laboratory and MRI scanner, dialogue about the frontal cortex and the mysteries of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “My mind had moved a few inches to the left of its usual place,” the author and poet Patricia Lockwood ...

This might be the most meta introduction to an author interview that I've ever delivered. In Patricia Lockwood's new novel, the narrator is a novelist named Patricia who describes a book tour to ...

Meeting the author Patricia Lockwood is a lot like reading her books: warm and enveloping. Batting my hand away in favour of a hug, she sits down and immediately orders a litre bottle of still water ...

This week's lineup of new books boasts a couple of headliners in Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood. Whatever their differences as writers — and there certainly are a few — both are recognizable by ...