An Inconvenient Moment for an Extreme Global Heat Wave

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With nearly fifty thousand people still missing, an improvised rescue operation comprising civilians, local firefighters, and foreign brigades is racing to sift through the wreckage.

The Nobel laureate on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books.

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news.

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A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.

As the SpaceX I.P.O. kicks off what is expected to be a wave of A.I. offerings, a new book turns to another speculative era—the railroad boom that culminated in the Great Panic of 1873.

Even though an agreement has been reached, nations around the world will be feeling the effects of the war for some time.