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Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

In muckily deliberative masterworks such as “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse,” the Hungarian director monumentalized the process of decay and the passage of time.

In the fall of 2021, I flew down to Mar-a-Lago with my husband, Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at the Times, to interview Donald Trump for a book we were writing on his first term in office. After an hour and a half, an aide moved to end…

The Manhattan Theatre Club revival of Tracy Letts’s funny, ultimately heartbreaking psychological thriller “Bug” opens with Carrie Coon—who plays Agnes White, a lonely waitress holed up in an Oklahoma motel room—standing in front of a half-open door and holding…

In season two of “The Pitt,” the Emmy-winning drama that returned to HBO Max on Thursday, a middle-aged man named Orlando Diaz wakes up in the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. His wife and daughter are at his side; a cannula is delivering oxygen into his…

During the Cold War, classical ballet companies such as the Kirov and the Bolshoi were among the most prominent cultural weapons of the Soviet Union. But the arsenal also included another kind of ballet troupe, one that took regional folk dances and customs…

In “The Score,” the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that play is the meaning of life.

When we first glimpse the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the stunning new film that bears his name, he is lying on a corpse-strewn beach, looking near death himself. It’s 1511, and he has just participated in the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, a historic…

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How the best-selling author of “People We Meet on Vacation” channelled her love of rom-coms—and her religious upbringing—into a new kind of romance novel.

The staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples.

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”

The city where George Floyd was murdered finds itself again at the epicenter of a national crisis.

The recent trend of movies set in the past but still within living memory is a natural effort to find out how the hell we got here, but I discern another underlying motive: to show life before social media and the primacy of cellphones in daily life. Directors…

“What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.

In the most conservative state in the U.S., libertarianism can lead in surprising directions.

He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle.