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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.

One morning earlier this month, deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the couple at the center of a nationwide surrogacy scandal. Officers had staked out the pair’s ten-thousand-square-foot mansion…

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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Last week, a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association—using data from a sample of nearly five hundred military members—reported that approximately twenty-five per cent of participants had at least one measured testosterone…

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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