Unsolved murders are commonplace in some parts of the world. People disappear, bodies are dumped, and overwhelmed, under-resourced or corrupt officials refuse to allocate time or resources to finding ...

The wheels of justice turn slowly. Hadi Matar, now 27, was sentenced this past February for his August 2022 knife attack on Salman Rushdie in upstate New York. Matar will spend the next three decades ...

At a mere 4.5 by 6.5 inches, only 122 pages long, with a cover that’s bright white and soothing flamingo pink, Brian Eno and Bette A.’s What Art Does beckons with an easy-going, “See? Manageable.” ...

When William Freeman, a young Black man, stabbed four white people to death in Cayuga County, New York in March 1846, the question on everyone’s mind was why? What motive did Freeman have for killing ...

It’s the language and telling that makes Vigil such a pleasure to read. While the subject is death and the act of dying, the prose is so alive with rhythmic inventiveness that it serves as a ...

I read Make Your Own Job after hearing Madeleine Baker, a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University, on a podcast during which she talked about tech billionaires and the gig workers who ...

Many years ago I wrote a letter to my county supervisor protesting the proposed development of an avocado orchard near where my in-laws lived. I was upset on two fronts. First, the loss of yet another ...

Returning to a book I read twenty or more years ago is usually revealing, both about the book and myself. The book is the same, but as a reader I hope I have changed. How will the book strike me now?

In California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline, Rosanna Xia, an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, writes: “When talking about climate change solutions, most actions ...

In the lead article in the New York Times morning newsletter of September 25, 2024, Steve Lohr, who covers technology and the economy for the Times, discusses how the CrowdStrike disaster that “should ...

Emmanuel Kant relished fine wines and gourmet meals. Werner Heisenberg thought profoundly as he strolled through a park in winter. Jorge Luis Borges was devastated when his lover abandoned him for ...

If you’ve ever wondered how historical nonfiction can be dry like a martini and not dry like a textbook tome, you need to pick up Cecelia Tichi’s Gilded Age Cocktails. A professor of American ...