In January 2025, doctors at the Buldhana District Women’s Hospital in Maharashtra detected a rare case of “foetus in foetu” ...

So when she appeared pink-haired and enwrapped in a bionic bodysuit on the cover of her fifth album, many breathed a sigh of relief: finally, the eccentric pop Gaga we all knew and loved was back.

We were taught, for instance, about Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590), a canonical epic poem that is more than 36,000 lines long and that Spenser described as “cloudily enwrapped in ...