At that moment we somehow knew that it was the beach where the artist, with a perfect taste for drama, for a great story, for a piercing ray of light, had met his end. His signature might have been ...

From The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy, out in February from Dutton. Leon Trotsky’s whitewashed study, which abutted his simply furnished bedroom, was ...

The rules of Japan’s national sport are relatively straightforward: two rikishi—literally, “strong men”—face each other near the center of the ring, crouched on their haunches, like plus-size ...

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

Though they already live alone, Vigdis Hjorth’s narrators often feel that they need to be even more alone, to retreat from city life altogether, to a place where there is no risk of running into their ...

It was in 2018 that Aaron Slodov came to believe that America had lost its soul. Slodov, an unassuming sandy-haired millennial from Cleveland, had spent much of his professional life working out ...

is a writer based in Berlin.

Becky Zhang: “The Precipice” is set at a private all-girls school in Los Angeles in the Nineties, but is written from the ...

I’m talking about the rupture of a civilizing thread—historic events, like the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, and the ...

The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have seemed trivial; the ...