Parable is initially narrated by a mysterious derelict who carries a heavy, wrapped object everywhere he goes. He is quick to ...

Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others. Lauren lives with this burden ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a ...

The Stanley Parable was one of the most influential indie games of its time, and it's only grown in prominence since. As one of the most absurdist video games ever made, it could be a very strange, ...

At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell’s stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel hovers between ...

For the third time now, someone has told me the parable of a Chinese farmer from 2,000 years ago. I think that means something. Not just to me, but as a sign of our times. First, an instructor shared ...

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.

It starts with the modern hall of mirrors - a screen depicting a screen depicting a screen. I can count three of these before the detailing gets too small to make out, but even then I'm forgetting one ...

“Doubt can be a bond as powerful and as strong as certainty,” preaches the charismatic Father Flynn (Liev Schreiber) in the sermon that begins John Patrick Shanley’s gripping 2005 drama Doubt: A ...

"The Return of the Prodigal Son", by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, c. 1669 This Sunday’s Gospel evokes deep human emotions, which Rembrandt famously depicted in his painting The Return of the ...

I pray that in this new year, each of us in our respective religious communities, will make a new resolution to be a neighbor ...