The U.S. government arrested Chinese professors, implying that they were foreign agents. The professors say that they’ve been caught up in a xenophobic panic.
Peter Handke’s defenders argue that his views on Serbia are extraneous to his literary achievement, but a close reading of his output suggests otherwise.
In a play by Lloyd Suh, at the Public, Afong Moy—who is believed to be the first woman from China to come to the United States, in 1834—summarizes the travails of the Chinese in America.
The former, on Peacock, is a humorless remake of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” while the latter, an original series by Quinta Brunson, has rejuvenated the form.
Amy Davidson Sorkin on oil, Trump, and the G.O.P.; calling from Kyiv; the endurance of the Endurance; why the Catskills beat L.A.; French politics in English.
With the help of a database launched by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, a YouTuber from Kyiv is calling strangers in Russia and telling them just what their boys in uniform are doing across the border.
As the old-school explorers on a double-hulled icebreaker searched for Shackleton’s ship, Ping-Pong, Alicia Keys songs, and dark chocolate staved off boredom—and the cold.
Amanda Seyfried describes why she almost passed on a dream role, playing the Theranos fraudster in Hulu’s “The Dropout,” in favor of staying on her farm upstate, where she collects her sheepdog’s fur to spin into yarn for crocheting.
Gilles Paris references “Emily in Paris” and considers Maureen Dowd an inspiration for his daily dispatches in Le Monde’s first-ever English-language column, aimed at American readers.
The soul singer, a Grammy Hall of Famer who’s sold a hundred million records and counting, brings more than three decades’ worth of hits to City Winery.
For its ninth outlet, in Gramercy Park, the upscale U.K. steak-house group pulled out all the stops, with a menu featuring mammoth slabs of charcoal-grilled meat.
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