That was all true, but none of it seemed especially relevant, or to contain even the slightest real significance, because inside San Siro it was extremely...
THE BATHYSPHERE BOOK: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths, by Brad Fox Consider the siphonophore. An inhabitant of the lightless ocean, it looks like a single...
WASHINGTON — Legislators and regulators who began the headlong expansion of legalized gambling in the United States are now moving in spots nationwide to tighten oversight...
The Turkish president Recep Erdogan looms large in Kenan Orhan’s I AM MY COUNTRY: And Other Stories (Random House, 227 pp., $27), a powerful and provocative...
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, bestowing one of America’s most prestigious awards in journalism and the arts on writers across a range of categories....
Bob Huggins will keep his job as the head men’s basketball coach at West Virginia, the university said Wednesday, but will be suspended for three games...
What I’m reading: summer snobs edition I’ve made a decision that I feel very good about: the theme of my summer fiction reading this year is...
After a disquieting period in which seven horses died at Churchill Downs during the run-up to last week’s Kentucky Derby, horse racing is again caught up...
SKELETONS, by Deborah Landau. (Copper Canyon, paperback, $18.) Landau’s earthy, angsty poems — about sex and mortality and cosmic despair — are insistently quotable, and more...
PARIS — An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before...