By A.O. Scott “The dean of Western writers” is the epithet most often attached to Wallace Stegner’s name, but it’s a description that obscures as much as it reveals.Credit…Baron Wolman/Getty Images I FOUND MY WAY to Wallace Stegner by accident. Really through three identical accidents, lightning […]
By Dana Rubinstein and Jeffery C. Mays It was still a few hours before New York City would fall under a historic curfew on Monday night, but Mayor Bill de Blasio could already see that it was not working. Demonstrators had been amassing for several days to protest […]
Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan. He was 84. His husband, David Webster, said the cause was […]
The shuttering of theaters has caused the dance world untold damage, yet there has been an upshot: the increased accessibility of high-end dance, as productions stream online, free. In a way, the moment harkens back to an earlier time, when the kind of dance […]
To the Editor: Re “U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, an Incalculable Loss” (front page, May 24): Thank you so much for this heartbreaking, breathtaking memorial. As a minister, I tell my congregants that memorializing someone is about much more than remembering the outlines of a […]
Though earlier research has shown chronic conditions like obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are common risk factors for severe Covid-19, the ubiquity of serious medical conditions in these patients was striking: Only 6 percent of them had no underlying health conditions. “The number […]
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