Photo Marcella Lewis, left, and Catherine Ellis Kirk of Abraham.In.Motion. in “Dearest Home,” at the Kitchen. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times A man approaches, almost near enough to touch. He’s wearing next to nothing, and you can tell he’s upset by the stricken look on his face and the …

Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) listens to Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during their meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on July 4, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. “China-Russia relations do appear to be smooth right now, but relations between those two major power neighbors have …

“It was something my friend and fellow Scottish writer John Niven got into doing between us for laughs,” Welsh said in an email. “Tennis commentary is generally pretty dull. Ours is grounded in the compelling perversity that the cuisine, climate and class structure of Scotland can produce a tennis champion …

But it was not until the early 1960s that Mr. Cohen’s personal interest in the captivating Carrollian oeuvre turned professional. He was having tea at the English estate of his friend Roger Lancelyn Green, who had edited Carroll’s diaries, when Mr. Green asked him to edit Carroll’s letters with him. …

Mr. Lauder has conveyed this message to Daniel Brodsky, the Met’s chairman, and to Daniel H. Weiss, who recently ascended to the top job at the Met, becoming chief executive as well as president. “Leonard has assured us he wants this gift to come to the Met,” Mr. Weiss said, …

Ms. Lovelis writes and sings with a degree of frankness that’s uncommon in recent generations of female pop singers. Sexual agency runs throughout this album, on those songs and also “Unholy,” “Like Lovers Do” and “Brand New Moves,” which has flickers of the awkward dance-rock of the early 1980s. On …

It’s among the satisfactions of Begley’s “The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera” that he delivers a subtle accounting of Nadar’s career as a photographer while reminding us of his subject’s many other talents and exploits. He was a gifted caricaturist, for example, and a journalist and editor who …

Speaking in May over lunch at a restaurant here, Ms. Harteros, 44, politely but firmly deflected certain questions about her personal life. “These are private reasons,” she said, “that I didn’t want such big travel, with big distance from home.” Continue reading the main story But interviews with past and …

The executors have made clear they plan to honor Albee’s desires, even when they might be controversial. In May, for example, they refused to allow a tiny Oregon theater to cast a black actor as a blond character in a production of Albee’s most famous play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia …

Qatar Petroleum on Wednesday announced plans to significantly raise natural gas production in the coming years, creating an obstacle to President Donald Trump’s goal of “energy dominance.” The move threatens to add to a projected glut of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, as a wave of new projects come online …