Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s long-awaited new novel and Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain are among the year’s most highly anticipated releases We believe there’s one uncomplicated good ...

Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, was rejected by disillusioned voters after a single term and went on to an extraordinary ...

Fanell Sawyer keeps replaying in her head the morning she learned Donald Trump had won the election. She was at home in Georgia, ready to start another day working remotely in customer service for ...

ROME — She sat at the gate at the airport, self-consciously probing her upper lip. She had recently started waxing to hide the stubble. Nothing about puberty bothered her more than the hair.

The season of literary prizes, followed closely by the season of year-end “best of” lists, is also a time to acknowledge some recent books — even award-winning ones — that haven’t ...

Two former FTX executives appear to have had time trimmed off their prison sentences for their roles in the multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the 2022 collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s ...

Czeslawa Kwoka, a Catholic Polish girl, was murdered at Auschwitz on March 12, 1943. She was 14 years old. Until her deportation three months earlier, Czeslawa had rarely left her village in ...

From Olympic officials to the New York Giants’ front office to the police officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler over a traffic infraction, mistakes were made. Our colleague Ava Wallace already ...

Richard D. Parsons, one of the leading corporate executives and crisis managers of his generation, who as chairman of Time Warner and Citigroup became a steadying pilot for media and financial ...

MALE, Maldives — In late 2023, Mohamed Muizzu became a problem for India. In fiery speeches, the newly elected president of the Maldives pledged to expel Indian troops stationed in his island ...

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken Oxford-educated economist whose financial reforms helped transform his struggling, poverty-stricken nation into an emerging power but ...

1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...