‘My sister was, like, you don’t have to fit in – you’re weird, and it’s okay that you’re weird’
The triple Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant makes music that’s restlessly experimental and entirely her own
New York Times
Irish arm of Western Union paid $32m dividend to parent company
Dublin company reports revenues of more than $627.6 million for 2025
Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt Donald Trump
No matter how much the US president wishes him away, Epstein is persisting as a national obsession
Does it matter if Belle Burden’s controversial divorce memoir doesn’t tell the whole truth?
Women don’t explicitly promise to love, honour and surrender their financial autonomy in marriage, but many do anyway
The joy of obituaries: Celebrating people who ‘wrinkled the social fabric’
In what feels like a trick of postmodernism, reading New York Times obituaries has become a treat. Writing them is ‘one of the great jobs in journalism’ - and a huge responsibility
Sonny Rollins: ‘Genius’ saxophonist was one of the most inventive jazz musicians of his generation
Williamsburg Bridge practice sessions and sabbaticals from performing added to mystique of New York native and colossus of the saxophone
The Help author Kathryn Stockett on being fired by her publisher and feeling like a failure
Midway through writing The Calamity Club, her ‘difficult second novel’, the bestselling Mississippi author was fired by publisher. In retrospect, she says, it was a blessing
Obituary: Doris Fisher, co-founder of Gap retail empire which helped change how Americans dress
A billionaire who eschewed an ostentatious lifestyle, she was an avid collector of modern art
US intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities
Evidence suggests Iran has restored operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites it maintains along Strait of Hormuz
Peanut farmer-intellectual Jimmy Carter was just what Americans needed. They still need his ilk
There is a neat symmetry to Carter’s story and to his hometown’s quietly glowing presence in the US
Upward Bound by Woody Brown: A non-verbal autistic man’s valuable appreciation of humanity
An exceptional book that’s not only a great read but an enriching experience
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle legal dispute over It Ends With Us film
Baldoni claimed that Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds attempted to tarnish his reputation
How Trump transformed America’s media order
A recent report found the US was experiencing its sharpest decline in democracy, citing pressure on the media as a key factor
Sheer prevalence of AI prose is giving rise to a new and extreme kind of suspicion
We exist, increasingly, in a cultural environment where we can never be quite sure whether what we are reading was written by a human or LLM
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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