‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 pages. Soft Skull. $23. Care work — tending to the sick …
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Read Your Way Through Cairo
Credit…Raphaelle MacaronThis story is part of a new series exploring the world through books. We’ve asked some of our favorite writers to …
When White People Become People of Color
THE LAST WHITE MAN, by Mohsin Hamid The opening sentence of “The Last White Man,” the latest novel by the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid, may …
George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89
George Bartenieff, an actor and producer who was a significant figure in the Off Off Broadway and experimental theater world as a founder of two …
‘Cazando el agua’: una cruel sequía afecta a México
México, o gran parte de él, se está quedando sin agua. Una sequía extrema ha hecho que las llaves de agua se sequen en todo el país, con casi dos …
Pelosi’s widely watched flight to Taipei took a circuitous route. Here’s why.
Nancy Pelosi’s plane departing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Taipei on Tuesday evening was one of the most closely tracked flights of all time. It …
Taiwan and Ukraine: Two crises, 5,000 miles apart, are linked in complex ways.
Hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in late February, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement that was clear, stern and not …
Why So Many Cars Have Rats in Them Now
For eight years, Libby Denault had taken her Prius to the same auto body shop in Brooklyn for tuneups and other repairs, which it always handled …
How New Yorkers Push the Limits
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll take a quick look at limits — speed limits and time limits — prompted by the expanded operation of speed …
Premier League Players Will No Longer Take a Knee Before Games
While Premier League soccer players will continue to take a knee to protest racism this season, they said Wednesday that the gesture would no …