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When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and some of her students fled abroad, Iryna Kovaliova, a literature teacher, decided it was time to retire. “I wrote...

Fall is full of harbingers of change: Air is brisk, daylight becomes fickle, leaves turn red. There is perhaps no better way to ground such a time of transformation and...

When Iria Leino, a Finnish-born painter, died at 89, the rent on her 4,000-square-foot loft in a former knitting factory in SoHo was $650 a month. Ms. Leino (pronounced LAY-no)...

A far-right party won the most votes in a German election for the first time since World War II. The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant...

As vacations wrap up and classes resume, trade in those sandy beach reads for more ambitious fare this fall. If you’re desperate for a break from politics — it is...

Vice President Kamala Harris correctly identified one of America’s biggest problems when she said that “there’s a serious housing shortage.” America’s affordable-housing crisis exacerbates wealth inequities, leads low-income parents to...

One of the buzziest literary phenomena of the year is the rise of the middle-age heroine. Miranda July’s perimenopausal epic, “All Fours”; Glynnis MacNicol’s hedonistic memoir, “I’m Mostly Here to...

Six years ago, Odessa, an oil town in West Texas probably best known for the high school football team that inspired “Friday Night Lights,” had all of 17 coffee or...

Protesters staging hunger strikes against tourism developments. Local officials threatening to cut off water to illegal vacation rentals. Residents spraying tourists with water pistols. With Labor Day, the unofficial end...

This summer, I paid my 12-year-old daughter $100 to read a book. As far as mom maneuvers go, it was definitely last ditch and the size of the payout was...