James Joyce’s biographer traveled all over Europe searching for details about the author of “Ulysses” and “Dubliners.” The ...

Jumping from spring to summer, fall to winter, a bittersweet remake of Alan Alda's 1981 comedy about friendships and relationships features a starry cast including Tina Fey, Will Forte, Steve ...

Designer Matt Stevens reimagines movies like ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Inception’ as covers in a book out this week from Chronicle ...

Ed Sheeran shares new album 'Play' release date and tracklist, the album is out September 12 with the newly-released singles ...

In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.

An exhibition devoted to the Art Nouveau designer highlights his suggestive, colorful posters, making an impassioned if ...

You can play free chess MMO One Million Chessboards right now, but it's less about the board game, and more about how you ...

Aaron John Curtis’s wonderfully voicey debut novel, which he describes in an afterword as “full autofiction,” opens with a ...

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According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong. It started with a bet. In the late 1980s, at a ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, tabletop game clubs — everything from Mahjong to chess — have been growing ... in love with Rummikub — a decades-old tile-based strategy game that’s a mix ...

Review by Chris Omaweng ‘Let me make this crystal clear. If I had the choice between scooping out one of my eyeballs with this spoon and spending even one more hour in here with you, I’d ...