‘Lost & Found’ Ponders Profound Grief Alongside Newfound Love
Since getting a booster shot from Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” the grief memoir has become such a hardy genre that it deserves …
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Craving Books, Sex and Revolution
BIBLIOLEPSYBy Gina Apostol Early in Gina Apostol’s “Bibliolepsy,” the assured young narrator states that some people might be disappointed to …
Are Children the Future? In This Novel, the Answer Is Complicated.
ANTHEMBy Noah Hawley How do we bring children up in today’s increasingly dangerous and divided world? Will they rise? Or will they fall? With the …
Canada Pledges Compensation in Battle Over Indigenous Child Welfare System
The Canadian government announced on Tuesday that it would pay a landmark 40 billion Canadian dollars to repair a child welfare system that is …
Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97
Sabine Weiss, whose arresting photographs of dirty-faced children, food-stall vendors and Roma dancers captured the struggles, hopes and …
5G cellular service will go forward as U.S. reaches deal with carriers.
Federal aviation officials have agreed not to ask for further delays to Verizon and AT&T’s new 5G cellular service, clearing the way for the …
Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures
LONDON — By tradition, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Street, so the elevation …
Don’t Tell Anyone, but 2021 Was Pretty Amazing
Grumpy New Year! There probably weren’t many Americans who started 2022 feeling celebratory. We’re going through yet another Covid wave, which is …
In New Orleans, King Cake Is a Way to Make Joy
NEW ORLEANS — When Dominick Lee was in elementary school in the 1990s, every year for Twelfth Night, the teacher would bring a king cake for the …
Sands of Persia Brings Elegant Desserts and Shisha to Astoria
Headliner Sands of Persia There’s no shortage of hookah or shisha bars in Queens, but this new one, which is also a dessert destination, ramps …