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A new theory about Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus suggests that the show could be a sequel to the highly acclaimed The Twilight Zone. If the theory proves to be true, fans can expect the show to expand its...

PEN America statement on Tom Stoppard death: “From his early plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that shocked audiences, to his most recent and most autobiographical play Leopoldstadt— in...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

Writer rose to prominence after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead won attention at Edinburgh fringe

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

For years, a handful of scientists have been laying the groundwork for an entire revolution in the study of life and intelligence. Unorthodox approaches, such as the conception of living beings as …