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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.

CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.

In a loft ten floors above the street-level din of downtown Los Angeles, Rafael Jaime, a thirty-seven-year-old Ph.D. candidate studying medieval and early modern English literature at U.C.L.A., was preparing, for the fourth time in seven days, to spend an…

John Goodman on Tom Cruise, the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin.

The author George Saunders reads his short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

“Shortcut,” by Diane Mehta: “I can’t remember how to reach / the end of my own sentences.”

In the Brothers Grimmit’s a passing hunterwho rescues them, but I prefer the woodcutter,from the French, who actsmore out of character,swinging his axeto dispatch the impostor, and on hearing the far-off,almost inaudible call,at once gutting the corpsefrom…

Your story “Appeasement, Ohio” revolves around a family visit: a man named Leo goes to see his cousin Maribeth and her son, Kip, because Kip has agreed to donate some tissue to help remedy an issue that Leo’s having with his eyes. What Leo discovers on arrival…

Among the many thousands of restaurants in New York City, only a very small number are New York City Restaurants, a rarefied fraternity of establishments that seem to evoke simultaneously the city as it is and as it’s romanticized—a sort of archetypal super…

In his sweeping new novel, “The Brightness,” Chad Harbach studies the crisis of being a college student in 2015—and of being a writer trying to redeem ambitious realist fiction.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück made an art of being a regular.

Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrations—and my best friend.

Blockers, by Michael Lewis (Norton). In the early months of 2025, Elon Musk, then a consultant for the Trump Administration, launched the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the aim of cutting two trillion dollars in federal spending. A cohort…

Seldom does the theatre adequately address the topic of enemas. But Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid,” which Bill Irwin has adapted and is starring in on Broadway, will serve all your peristaltic needs: Irwin’s hypochondriacal title character encounters a…

A new biography of the director Frank Capra inspires wonder at his irresistible vision of America and his immigrant journey.

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.