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Ian Bogost, PhD, the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, joined Academy President and CEO Nick Dirks for a wide-ranging discussion about video games, artificial intelligence, and culture. Their “fireside chat” was part of the 2026 Blavatnik Science Symposium. It comes on…

In all my years as a journalist, anime interviews have become the one assignment that makes me audibly sigh immediately after the rush of excitement at an email in my inbox. Why? They’re increasingly proving to be a behind-the-scenes headache that’s quite an affront to my craft, and a huge hassle with pyrrhic payoff long…

Whenever Hollywood launches a new shared cinematic universe, it’s hard to avoid comparing it to Marvel. In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe transformed into the film industry’s biggest franchise by telling a sprawling, interconnected saga consisting of 23 films, bringing together a plethora of separate sub-franchises in a way audiences hadn’t seen before. Marvel…