Real pros would resolve a point far more quickly, but this is tennis as modern erotic opera, and the scene ends with one of ...

Lee entered our home like a quiet breeze, yet I felt her presence like a powerful force of nature. It was 1965, and I was just 3 years old, but I remember her arrival vividly. She carried with her a ...

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Our country’s preoccupation with social over-sensitivity and political correctness has wiped out some of our best traditions.

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Some sages have argued that the blind patriarch Isaac was actually never deceived by Jacob. That seems like an intellectual ...

Daniel Jones has found a new home. After being released by the Giants and clearing waivers, Jones is signing with the Vikings ...

A new film adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” heads to Netflix. Wilson’s plays transformed my classroom.

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You may not see Denzel Washington in the new Netflix film adaptation of the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson, but his ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The curriculum’s approval was supported by Republican state leaders Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker ...