The Nobel Prize winner was diagnosed with a serious illness in the summer of 2020. He didn’t want to make it public, but his closest friends knew. He spent his final months visiting the settings of so ...

Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece.  “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared. At the time, no one paid Gerlach — a former car mechanic who had fallen on hard ...

The Times Opinion columnist discusses what he thinks Trump — and American policymakers — misunderstand about China in the escalating trade war.

Extreme adventurer Mark Synnott is out with his third book, chronicling his attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage in ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future ... the narrative is split between two soul-searching voices: Griffon Keming, a trans man reflecting on his tumultuous coming of ...