An emotional night at the theater, a childhood trip to Manhattan and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

The bodies of children, Clare thought, have the same grace as plants: They sprawl and reach and bend, they help themselves to ...

Federal workers, Google employees and newspaper editors have opened up about losing their jobs in the newsletter Laid Off.

Ms. Read’s retrial on charges that she killed her boyfriend, a Boston police officer, has so far largely resembled her first, ...

Actor-comedian Russell Brand was granted conditional bail by a London court on Friday after appearing to face charges of rape ...

Chu lists the many appearances in Cusk’s fiction of women who want to be men and who hate themselves for this secret desire, ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s ...

A writing contest led Mr. Lovesey to create a Victorian-age crime thriller, beginning a career that spanned more than 40 ...

While I have a writing career to push back on the show’s nasty narrative, so many other incarcerated people have no recourse ...

Mint is the easiest herb to grow. It’s so easy it may take over your garden if you aren’t careful, so plant it in a pot and ...

There’s a pocket of the literary world where the name “Lidia Yuknavitch” is spoken in reverent tones, as if invoking a sort of high priestess. You might think I exaggerate; I don’t. It all started in ...