Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021
This was a remarkably rich and capacious year for nonfiction. While we all continued to grapple with urgent developing news about the coronavirus …
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Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs
Each year around now, The New York Times’s book critics choose their favorite books from among those they reviewed over the previous 12 months …
Russian Is Convicted in Murder of Chechen Man in a Berlin Park
BERLIN — A German court sentenced a Russian man to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of a former Chechen separatist fighter in the …
Terry Gilliam’s Disputed Sondheim Show Finds a Home
LONDON — For weeks, a question hung over London theater: What would happen to Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”? On Nov. 1, the Old Vic theater …
How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return
Political analysts, scholars and close observers of government are explicitly raising the possibility that the polarized American electoral …
Was Climate Change to Blame for the Tornadoes, or Was It Just Really Bad Weather?
I’m a tornado climatologist, and it is not unusual for people to ask me after a spate of storms like the ones that ripped through the center of …
The ‘West Side Story’ Remake We Didn’t Need
I have to confess that I never saw the original “West Side Story.” All I knew is that it somehow involved gang members dance-fighting and singing …
How Hispanics Became Swing Voters
The chart that should frighten Democratic strategists appears in the 23rd slide of a newly released report from Equis Research, which tries to …
Is Democracy’s Fate the Media’s Fault?
Produced by ‘The Argument’ With the midterms just months away and the 2024 presidential race around the corner, the press is gearing up to cover …
How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good
This article is part of Times Opinion’s Holiday Giving Guide 2021. For other ideas on where to donate this year, please see the rest of our guide …