From The Odyssey to The Last of Us Part II, this sweeping look at the greatest revenge stories explores how vengeance evolved ...

From savage clapbacks to cold-hearted bars, these Hip Hop and R&B revenge songs are the ultimate soundtrack for moving on.

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

“Revenge,” said Francis Bacon, “is a kind of wild justice.” Both justice and revenge, Bacon recognized, involve our punishing those whom we believe have wronged us. But there is one big difference.

Revenge serves a very useful purpose – even the idea of seeking it gives us pleasure. Why is this? A tale of revenge is always bittersweet. Take the sack of Troy, as depicted in Homer's epic poem The ...

Once an ’80s classic, Revenge of the Nerds doesn’t quite hold up under the bright lights of 2019 — a fact that not even its cast, director, and writer can ignore. In GQ’s oral history for the comedy’s ...