Month: December 2023

It sounds slightly deranged to credit Anton Chekhov with having written one of the best scenes of sexual and romantic tension in the canon, but he did: in “Uncle Vanya,”…

Aleksandr Mokin had lost the will to live. Convicted of selling drugs and ostracized by his family, he endured abuse from guards and frequent spells in solitary confinement at a…

Spotify said on Monday that it would cut nearly a fifth of its work force, at least the third round of layoffs this year, as it has struggled to become…

After decades on the job, they had plenty of reasons to like working for the New Jersey State Police. Dawn Curran, 53, was proud to be among an elite cadre…

Donald J. Trump’s defense lawyers will call his son and fellow defendant Eric Trump back to the witness stand this week, along with more expert witnesses to testify on the…

With winter ahead, and the influx of migrants continuing unabated, New York City is set to enter a potentially perilous new phase in a crisis that has already overwhelmed homeless…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In a recent — and very stimulating — discussion between Michael Hudson and Steve Keen, a question arose: When was the term “capitalism,” er, coined?…

A U.S. Navy destroyer shot down three drones during a sustained attack in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Pentagon said, in what could signal another escalation in the tit-for-tat…

I found myself at the movies this year more often than last. The data suggests that I’m not alone. The number of tickets that U.S. movie theaters sold this year…

I was sitting in my apartment in Beirut on the evening of Oct. 13 when I read that journalists had been struck by a missile attack in southern Lebanon. My…