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A conversation with the New Yorker’s architecture critic.

Game designers are having to think more like marketers: “We’re used to having fun be at the core, but now funding is at the core,” says Schell. “Now we design […]

The concrete sense of the achievement, combined with the opportunity for social engagement and a never-ending source of challenges make massively multiplayer online games a highly captivating form of entertainment.

In the future, video games may allow everyone to have a personal trainer, not only for exercise, but for their education, hobbies, art, spirituality—anything in their life that they’d like […]

Video game technology is the medium that subsumes all others. Once these games have the ability to listen to humans, they’ll be even more emotionally enticing.

Our educational system should be reinvented to harness the incredible power of educational games.

A conversation with the video game designer.

The late, great pianist is Huang’s favorite, but if she tried to mimic his daring interpretations, “it would not be very good,” she says.

The 14-year-old pianist wants to drag classical music into the 21st century by creating an iPhone app for fans of the German composer.

Keeping track of all the different voices in a Bach piece is a fun way to improve your technique, says the 14-year-old champion pianist—but it can also affect your brain.

“If you put down your controller for just a second while playing Mario Kart—wham—you’ll crash and lose a life.” The 14-year-old champion pianist says the consequences are similar, albeit less […]

From a distance, Johann Sebastian Bach’s pieces seem so “simple and pure,” says the 14-year-old pianist. But on “the inside” they are much more complex.

A conversation with the pianist.

New tools and methodologies involve the consumer in the development and review of the creative process more than ever before. The best marketers bring the consumer in early on to […]

Following the gulf oil spill disaster, the best thing that BP can do is to clean up the mess as quickly as possible. “Their actions will allow them then to […]

A conversation with the Global CEO of Razorfish.

The past doesn’t so much teach us specific lessons as give us an appreciation for the complexity of the issues we face.

Problems in corporate America are often connected to the fact that management is no longer answerable to the people who actually own their companies.

Cornelius Vanderbilt couldn’t spell, but he had a consummate passion for competition.

Digitization has actually made working on biographies more laborious. The sheer amount of material means that the process actually takes longer if you’re going to be thorough.

Although biographies often focus on individuals, they’re really about exploring big historical trends.

A conversation with the Cornelius Vanderbilt biographer.

Digital books and iPads are certainly changing the way that people write, but so did computers when they first came out. You just have to move with the culture and […]

Writing a novel isn’t a practical, logical thing to do. The author starts by writing an outline from an “emotional place” and then becomes a “cool technician” to shape it […]

“It’s very easy to write a script compared to a book,” says the author. A novel is not a logical thing and it doesn’t come from a logical place—a screenplay […]

It’s much less fun to release a book these days—with all the necessary Twitter and Facebook promotions—than when the novelist began.

The author has “no idea” why characters from his previous novels reappear in his new ones. “It just feels right.”

“There’s an argument to be made, sure, that the violence in ‘American Psycho’ was gratuitous,” says the author. But he also sees how the book is “a kind of performance […]

A conversation with the novelist.

The biggest mistake young screenwriters make is “over-reliance on dialogue” when, in fact, a screenplay is really about setting up the visual scene.