New York Times

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“Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters,” edited by Adam Sisman, sparkles with the charm that made Fermor such a welcome guest and bedmate.

As a national conversation about harassment moves forward, journalistic gatekeepers are under the glare, raising questions about how their behavior shaped the stories they told.

Claire van Kampen worked on other people’s plays for decades. Then she wrote “Farinelli and the King.” It’s been a hit in London and makes its way to New York next week.

Janine Jansen, a star in Europe, claims one of New York’s musical prizes this season: a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall that begins on Dec. 7.

Ms. Foy of “The Crown” talks about playing a middle-age Queen Elizabeth II, some coveted new roles and becoming Hollywood’s latest next big thing.

The woman who launched a generation of copycats makes a home that’s truly inimitable.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in a San Francisco case that set off a national debate.

Friday: An earthquake gives New York a bit of a shake, weekend events, and the only supermoon of the year.

Major tax legislation should not be passed with extreme haste.

Reluctant to leave their homes and animals unprotected, some Indonesians from near Mount Agung have circumvented government orders.

The Chelsea space gets an appropriate send-off — an improv marathon complete with dance party and Dumpster comedy — before the group moves to Hell’s Kitchen.

Friday: Ghost Ship anniversary, Kate Steinle verdict, Salinas Valley four decades later.

New York City’s program applies to managers but omits a vast majority of workers, like teachers, police officers and park rangers, who are in unions.

A trillion-dollar problem delayed a vote on the Republican tax bill, and the White House has an elaborate transition plan.

As she trimmed my hair I’d relish her stories about moving to New York in 1960 as a “career girl” instead of marrying young down South.

When the rainbow flag drapes every elected official, does it change a city’s hue?

The president is acting more deranged than usual, but Republicans in Congress don’t care.

It was plunder, plunder over generations, that had produced this desolation and violence.

Mr. Kimmel lashed out at Mr. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama accused of sexual misconduct, after the two tangled on Twitter.