The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in ...

WASHINGTON — From religious leaders and politicians to activists and scientists, the world said goodbye to a number of ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Everything I know about Afghanistan, I learned primarily from Khaled Hosseini’s books. By everything, I mean the way Afghans live, their day-to-day activities, relationships, the food, the ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery.

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery.

The year 2025 has been difficult for Kenya and the wider African community, marked by the loss of influential figures across ...

The most impactful deaths in 2025 from the pope to Ozzy Osbourne and Charlie Kirk - Here are impactful deaths from around the ...

This is part 3 in the series, Sacred Geography, Ancestral Memory & the Restoration of Meaning, which explores the natural and ...

New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate in ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...