The French theater company La Machine is bringing a massive fire-breathing dragon built of steel and carved wood to the city of Calais, France.
The show’s co-creator discusses the writing of the third season, its relationship with religion, and the Wizard of Oz.
Monsoon flooding in India, destroyed bombers on a Russian airfield, Dragon Boat Festival races in China, a huge tomato fight in Colombia, surfing in South Africa, and much more
Disney’s new film is the latest to draw on the real world to create a fictional land. But well-intentioned details can carry a story only so far.
What it’s like to watch a komodo dragon get dissected
The movie version of Philip Pullman's Golden Compass creates a luminous fantasy world, but loses the book's magnetic force of meaning
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
The author of the Game of Thrones series talks about his newest novel, and the joys and challenges of writing genre fiction
In the pursuit of scientific discovery, where is the line between alternative therapies and "quackademic" medicine?
What a wonderful kind of day.