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From his Denver jail cell, the nearly bald, swastika-tattooed murder suspect spoke the sort of poker-faced lunacy that the nation hoped it had left behind. In a war, said Nathan Thill, 19, explaining why he shot defenseless Mauritanian immigrant Oumar Dia, everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out. Dias

Ted Chiang is perhaps the worlds most celebrated living science-fiction author. His short, carefully hewn stories explore how our inner worlds and our societies would react to unexpected rifts in the fabric of science. How would it feel to receive a hormone injection that drastically improved your cognitive function? What if learning an alien language

The Boys universe is expanding with a prequel series titled Vought Rising. It will star Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash reprising their Boys universe roles as Soldier Boy and Stormfront, respectively.

Modern hotels claim luxury with a color telephone in the bathroom and an electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of

Although the Philharmonic has programmed music by Thorvaldsdottir, 40, in the past, this is her first commission for the orchestra, the result of winning its Kravis Emerging Composer award in 2015. Early on, she said, it was clear that the piece would be about power struggle and chaos, inspired in part by just so much