World

Lore Segal Will Keep Talking Through Her Stories
October 13, 2024
Lore Segal, who died on Monday, at the age of ninety-six, published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1961, and her final one two weeks ago,...
Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery
October 12, 2024
Back in 2012, some years before her husband, Donald Trump, was elected President of the United States, Melania Trump tweeted a picture of a beluga whale, its glistening white...
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
October 11, 2024
My job is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and leave it to good old Jesus and the rest of his family to deal with everything...
The Mordant Intimacy of Cécile Desprairies’s “The Propagandist”
October 11, 2024
Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived...