“Story of Your Life” first appeared in the 1998 anthology Starlight 2, and is now available in Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others collection. It received three distinguished sci-fi literary ...

The 2016 film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve, delves into the complexities of linguistics and communication ...

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“We are so bound by time. By its order,” says the heroine of this smart, deeply moving alien-visitor drama. I can’t think of a better way to spend two hours of that time than watching “Arrival,” set ...

If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, how would we even ask them what they wanted? Linguist Louise Banks, portrayed by Amy Adams, has to solve that problem in time to save the world from interplanetary ...

“Arrival,” the new movie from Denis Villeneuve (“Sicario,” “Prisoners”), which Anthony Lane reviewed in last week’s issue of the magazine—and which, this past weekend, earned twenty-four million ...

Is a hammer a tool or a weapon? That’s “Arrival’s” most intriguing question (and one of the only intriguing things in the movie). “Arrival” follows Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist recruited ...