Sarah Jessica Parker, Taye Diggs, Jodi Picoult and more took the stage at PEN America's gala to criticize book bans and the ...

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Under Kathleen Kingsbury, the Times’ “Opinion” section has doubled in size. What kind of publication is she building?

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Ms. Adams, the City Council speaker, is releasing a crime plan that creates hiring and retention incentives for police ...

Professors Shore, Snyder and Stanley have studied and written extensively on authoritarianism. Ms. Trianni is a producer for ...

One of the first Iranian novelists to write in English, she examined the clash between East and West. Her debut novel, ...

Music, for instance, can offer a real sense of peace, he added. So can visual art. Dr. Keltner recently tried a New York Times focus challenge, spending 10 minutes looking at van Gogh’s “Starry Night, ...

Françoise Sagan’s first novel, “Bonjour Tristesse,” was published in 1954. With a new film adaptation, the book and its ...