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In parallel tracks of elegy and mystery, Sarah Perry recalls the life and death of her young mother, who was murdered when the author was 12.

The author of “Hamilton,” “Titan” and most recently “Grant,” is a slow reader: “It’s a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books.”

A party that made Henri Rousseau famous, the gumbo that fueled the fight against segregation and the banquet that spoiled a presidential campaign.

It’s tempting to believe the president is just trying to scare Kim Jong-un by acting crazy. If he is, it won’t work.

John G. Roberts Jr. worries that people look at the Supreme Court justices and see partisans. His concern is a good thing.

Democrats and Republicans need to act in the public interest and not for the powerful and connected.

The most tragic aspect of Asia Argento’s being hounded in her own country is that the worst attacks weren’t coming from men.

Jeff Flake spoke out. But where are the heroes with skin in the game?

Arguments over the law center on how a traditionally white, Catholic and French-speaking province can absorb new immigrants’ cultures, while protecting its own.

An unexpected political thaw, called by some the Uzbek Spring, represents some of the first positive political news out of Central Asia in years.

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A $5 million property with executive suites and a two-room mud hut with wasps and 80-cent beans speak of the Bamian Valley’s fluctuating fortunes.

The Dodgers and Astros have have gone back and forth in a wild World Series Game 2. Stay here for updates and analysis.

The central bank is set to reduce the virtual money-printing that has kept the eurozone afloat. Some businesses and governments may be in for a shock.

With intervention from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Barry Diller’s grand plan for a $250 million cultural island on a pier in the Hudson River has been revived.

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As a new trove of documents about the killing of President John F. Kennedy is released, The Times's Peter Baker walks us through who’s who in this American tragedy.

Over the years, the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, has comforted families of the fallen — while simultaneously lashing out at a “chattering class” of critics.

The dossier has gained notoriety for its salacious, unproven claims about President Trump. Its research was funded by an unnamed Republican and then partly by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Calls to remove works from museums because of racism and animal cruelty are an opportunity, not just censorship.