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Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” Bill Irwin chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway.

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.

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.

In a world where state policy is shaped by A.I. hallucination, it’s cute to remember that consulting Wikipedia was once seen as irresponsible. Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes. “Reads like Wikipedia”…

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

“I came to think of translating as a room,” Anne Carson wrote, in her illustrated book of poems “Nox,” “where one gropes for the light switch.” When the Swedish Academy awarded Carson the Nobel Prize in Literature this month, they continued a long tradition…