Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that ...

The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

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A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

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From the daily newsletter: a reflection on the timelessness of the novelist on her two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday today.

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