Let’s face it — critics and audiences don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to any medium, but especially when it comes to video games. One person’s 1 out of 10 could be another person’s “perfect ...

Mr. Block is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Homeschooled.” By my third year of home-schooling — in 1994, when I was 12 — Mom’s project of turning me back into an infant was nearly complete.

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...