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Science fiction and fantasy, long dominated by Western mythology, are growing more diverse, with novels that draw on African mythology and legends.

The official result sets up a potential showdown with Madrid, as separatists had pledged to make the result binding within 48 hours and unilaterally declare independence.

Some people are using a special class of I.R.A. — self-directed ones — to invest their nest eggs with a philanthropic twist. But it has its risks.

Figures indicate individual stockholders prefer the status quo in corporate boardrooms and on governance matters. Don’t believe it, experts say.

In a new cultural history of the origins and readings of the Genesis story, Stephen Greenblatt traces a long arc.

It takes practice to make these crisp golden crepes, but a tip from Anita Jaisinghani of Pondicheri makes them a little more accessible.

A genetic analysis showed that a stick insect found on another island was the same species as one that had been wiped out by rats on Australia’s Lord Howe Island.

Floyd Conrade had just checked into a room on the 31st floor of the Mandalay Hotel. Right above him was Stephen Paddock. Here’s what he heard.

One survived an ax attack; another, acid; a third, torture. But in an Afghan women’s shelter they helped one another, and now their lives are changing.

David Greenspan has been rehearsing his solo take on the epic “Strange Interlude” for four years. Now it’s show time.

An honest obituary for a wicked American.

Japan has spent billions on an underground system to control water around the capital, but some fear that the city is vulnerable as global warming brings more extreme weather.

Visiting under the H-2A program, which brings temporary agricultural labor to the U.S., Jamaicans have worked in New York orchards since World War II.

A definitive revival of the musical “Merrily We Roll Along” and a new play about Andy Warhol and Truman Capote dissect the discontents of celebrity.

East (minus 3) meets West at the Guggenheim, in what Holland Cotter calls a “powerful, unmissable event” about a world we are still getting to know.

A legal fight over the boots irritates Australians, including the prime minister, who say too many of their famous names are taken by others.

Officials are facing pressure to decide whether to charge the man with sparse evidence or hold him in indefinite wartime detention, which the military has not done since 2008.

The music director of the Royal Opera in London, Mr. Pappano is coming to New York with his Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

The actor reveals why he and his character are done with isolation, some of his own paranoia, and the secret to playing Freddie Mercury.

Security officers at Las Vegas casinos are better trained and led than stereotypical “rent-a-cops,” experts say, but many are unarmed and rarely contend with serious criminal violence.