Historic messages and documents obscured by incomprehensible ciphers can be found in libraries and archives all over the world. Artificial intelligence is helping historians crack open these ...

We’re just days away from a new “Star Wars” movie hitting theaters.. But if you’ve seen any of the purposefully vague trailers for “The Mandalorian and Grogu” (in theaters May 22), they will tell you ...

Use these eight AI prompts to create clearer charts, graphs, and data visualizations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and other AI tools.

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Weinstein covers topics ranging from the Fed to the cost of college. Sep 17, 2025, 10:48pm EDT At its September 17th meeting the ...

Writer-director Zach Cregger’s second horror movie hit Weapons, unfolds in a non-linear narrative, but one that is still fairly easy to parse out into its proper chronology. Weapons centers on the ...

The indictment reads like a cinematic plot: A Harvard Fellow and another activist allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s, Stinger missiles and grenades to topple South Sudan’s government. What they lacked was ...

The reason we love stories is the characters. Sure, we like a good, exciting plot and an interesting world, but complex characters are what turn those worlds and plots into something memorable—they ...

In her 2021 essay “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” New Yorker critic Parul Sehgal delves into the controversy surrounding Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life. Referring to its protagonist, the ...

Hallmark Mystery has some genuinely great movie franchises out there: a few recent favorites,The Cases of Mystery Lane, CrimeTime: Freefall, and the Mystery Island series, are all recurring cozy ...

Most screenplays use some form of a plot device. But a bad plot device can ruin an otherwise acceptable screenplay, so screenwriters must be careful to craft storytelling devices in a way that ...