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.

It happened one day, let us say, in the nineteen-eighties. You were checking into a hotel in La Quinta, half an hour or so from Palm Springs. As you entered the lobby, you were met by an in-house greeter: a funny little guy in a loud shirt, with a jacket…

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

Undoing the Hindenburg disaster, and other romantic things to do on a time-travel date.

Game on.

Wanda the Donkey regularly steals the show at the Met’s most popular production, “La Bohème.” Here’s an inside look at her creative process.

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Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election.

A remarkable memoir recounts a writer’s struggles with alcoholism and religious faith—and the unsettling ways in which each has fed her longing for the other.

People make a big deal about the hundred and one Dalmatians, and how they were saved from Cruella de Vil, but rarely do you hear about the hundred-and-second Dalmatian.

In an L.A. criminal court, new details emerge about the mysterious couple who collected more than 20 babies through surrogacy. The couple remain in custody for charges related to the abuse of the children.

Scratchers that aren’t total eyesores, toys your feline friend might play with at least once (before fixating on the packaging), books and accessories for cat-obsessed humans, and some ideas for dog people, too.

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New data suggest that a quarter of American servicemen may have low testosterone. That doesn’t mean what Pete Hegseth thinks it does.

“Fatherland” dramatizes the novelist Thomas Mann’s 1949 return to Germany. Its filmmaker, Paweł Pawlikowski, also tweaks the facts to fit his own style—one with little room for variety or range, Richard Brody writes.

The wonder of the online world was built by a community of eccentric volunteers. Can it survive the A.I. models it helped train?

Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide.

Our critic’s favorite works by the new Nobel laureate. Plus: Colm Tóibín’s reading recommendations.