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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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On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers who were harvesting olives in the West Bank. In the process, they also beat up an American Washington Post photographer, Heidi Levine, who was there to cover the annual olive harvest. The…

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.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” offers an amiable eighty-two minutes of condensed history, centered on the septuagenarian novelist Thomas Mann’s trip, in the summer of 1949, to Germany—West and East—in order to receive each country’s Goethe Prize on the…

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.

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Olga Rivera Galati, a deputy director at We Are Casa, an immigrant-advocacy organization, was starting her car in the parking lot outside her office, in York, Pennsylvania, when a white S.U.V. pulled into the spot next to her. It was just after five o’clock…

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state.