You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

It's been 50 years since One Day at a Time took over television screens! The hit CBS sitcom, which premiered on Dec. 16, 1975, followed divorced single mother Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) as she ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...