We cling to tidy success narratives—appealing stories that trace an outsize triumph to a single critical decision, a vital personality trait, a striking incident from childhood. Such stories make ...

Source Code is a pseudocerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller, a propulsive ride worth your popcorn dollar. That’s not for its preposterous genre tinkering but for its refreshingly humanist take ...

You might hope that billionaires’ memoirs would do something to break through the persona, but oh no. At best, they rewrite history for their benefit — to downplay the bad, hype up the good, change ...