Right Now The S&P 500 fell nearly 4 percent. Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply on Wednesday, following a slump in global markets, as investors face new project...
Des décennies durant, l’écrivain Gabriel Matzneff s’est servi de son image et de ses lettres pour justifier sa traque d’adolescentes. Son témoignage avait été r...
For decades, the writer Gabriel Matzneff used Francesca Gee’s image and letters to champion his sexual pursuit of adolescents. But her own account was rejected,...
The New New World The sudden silence of Ren Zhiqiang, a vocal member of the Communist Party, signals a retreat from the principles that led China out of poverty...
Yet there is no indication Nicolás Maduro will step down, despite little assistance to confront the coronavirus and losing an economic lifeline during an oil sp...
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DEEP GOSSIP: New and Selected Poems, by Sidney Wade. (Johns Hopkins University, paper, $19.95.) With short lines and sly, syncopated rhymes, Wade’s nature poems...
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Fiction HEX By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Nell Barber is an expelled biology Ph.D. candidate. Her alma mater, Columbia, banished all six members of her lab group...
fiction HURRICANE SEASONBy Fernanda Melchor The Witch, they say, is loaded, with bullion concealed amid the trash of her squalid estate, itself a misbegotten in...
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Decades of isolation and international sanctions have ravaged North Korea’s public health system, raising fears about its ability to confront an outbreak. SEOUL...
The Indonesian government appears to have backed away from confronting China, its largest trading partner. “Our fishermen feel scared,” one official said. An In...
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From Ireland to Seattle, makers and engineers are creating open-source versions of much-needed medical equipment. There are moments when Gui Cavalcanti feels li...
