One of the frustrations of getting older is that some early memories seem to dim and fade with time. Scientists call these ...

Still from Camille Billops and James Hatch, Finding Christa (1991) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Academy of Music) The complete films of American artist Camille Billops and historian James Hatch ...

Actually, it was the song that allowed me to quit working for a living.” While this country classic by Alan Jackson isn’t ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante are making a huge success of it, but telling one’s own story in fiction is far from straightforward It should be so easy. Things happen to you. They seem like ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...

In 2006, Parker, Cahill and McGaugh reported the first known case of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) in a research participant known as “AJ”. When provided with a date, AJ could specify ...

There's a scientific reason for all the excitement around 1989 (Taylor's Version)—the power of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Everything Swift does makes news these days, but excitement ...

This story first ran in the animation newsletter “Sketch to Screen.” Subscribe here to receive a new entry every Thursday. This past week was an odd one for Pixar. On one hand, the company scored a ...