Like his Booker Prize-winning “Lincoln in the Bardo,” “Vigil” is set in a twilight world between life and death. “Vigil” ...

Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody.

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You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.