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

“The Woodcutter,” by Nick Laird: “In the earliest version / by Perrault the story is finished / when the girl gets eaten.”

The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.”

With the opening of Faux, in Tribeca, Keith McNally’s son steps into the family business. Is it ambition or hubris?

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.

“Woodward, Darman,” he said. It was how every phone call from him began over two decades. Richard G. Darman was what I call a “hide in plain sight” source, because it was widely known that we were close friends. Not known, but perhaps suspected, was that…

Short reviews of recent releases.

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…

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.