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Near the end of 2022, Lucas Bolt, an environmental artist and Lego enthusiast in Amsterdam, was working on a design for a Lego set the company had crowdsourced to commemorate...

When Kimberlee Stevenson married John Murray on April 30, 2021, “we thought the worst was behind us,” Mr. Murray said. “We were ready to start our lives together.” “We had...

At first, the children zipping around on bikes, roller skates and skateboards took little notice of the world famous athlete riding among them. Lot 11, tucked underneath a bustling Interstate...

When I first realized that “Shanghailanders,” Juli Min’s remarkable debut novel, was told in reverse, moving backward from 2040 to 2014, the main question on my mind was, why? There...

As the premise for a novel, a class reunion offers fertile literary ground. Characters consumed with memories of youth while reckoning with what they thought they’d become versus where they...

When I was 22 years old, I went into a smoke-filled house and persuaded a girl to leave with me. I wanted to save her from pointless bravery; I’d begun...

ACROSS THE COUNTRY A Battle Over Beer Split a Texas Town’s Biggest Party Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled. WHY...

As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they confided their fears about what is about...

Kaye Peterson, a 66-year-old retired librarian, is a direct beneficiary of one of President Biden’s proudest domestic policy achievements: lowering the cost of insulin for seniors. A longtime diabetic, Ms....

What is the best time of day to exercise? It’s a straightforward question with a frustrating number of answers, based on research results that can be downright contradictory. The latest...