Jeremy Silman, Author of Best-Selling Chess Books, Dies at 69
Jeremy Silman, an international chess master whose books were popular with players looking to improve their game, died on Thursday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 69. His wife, Gwen Feldman, said the cause was complications of primary progressive aphasia frontotemporal dementia. The notion of a best-selling chess author might sound More...
Book Review: ‘The End of Eden,’ by Adam Welz
But since the 1980s, spring snowmelt in Siberia has been arriving earlier by an average of half a day a year. The insects now emerge, breed and die before the young knots hatch out. Many of the young birds are More...
Cassidy Hutchinson Reappears. She Has More Trump Stories to Tell.
Cassidy Hutchinson, now 26, dropped out of sight last year after she testified in damning detail in a nationally televised committee hearing about President Donald J. Trump’s actions during and after the More...
Book Review: ‘American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15,’ by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
In the late 1980s, the AR-15 showed up in California gang wars and shootouts with the police. A national push to ban it and similar weapons ensued, bringing the firearm to widespread public attention and turning More...
Victor R. Fuchs, ‘Dean’ of American Health Care Economists, Dies at 99
Victor R. Fuchs, whose comprehensive grasp of the challenges facing the United States health care system, and eloquence in explaining those challenges to policymakers and the general public, made him what many More...
Comedian Aparna Nancherla Talks Mental Health in New Book ‘Unreliable Narrator’
A few hours before the comedian Aparna Nancherla was scheduled to perform at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles last month, she was at home tapping. With her index and middle fingers, she was tapping the crown More...
Book Review: ‘The Fall,’ by Michael Wolff
As we wait for those shoes to drop, Murdoch’s fourth marriage, to the former model Jerry Hall, is coming to an end, and his relationships with the children from his second marriage — James, Lachlan and Elisabeth More...
How TikTok Stars Like B. Dylan Hollis are Reshaping the American Cookbook
Three years ago, B. Dylan Hollis was an unemployed musician in Wyoming who had never baked anything outside a home-economics class, much less written a recipe. Last month, his debut cookbook, “Baking Yesteryear,” More...
Book Review: ‘Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener,’ by Gay Talese
Revealed are a few tools and tricks of the Talesian trade, among them the 7-by-3 cardboard squares, salvaged from his laundered dress shirts, that he uses for notetaking, sometimes from the privacy of a bathroom More...
Book Review: ‘The Wren, the Wren,’ by Anne Enright
Interspersed with the three characters’ stories are Phil’s poems, written about the Irish countryside and his family (he called Carmel “the wren”): Love is a tide,it is mistBecoming cloud, it is rainOn More...