The Times cover was widely regarded as the first by a major American fashion magazine with a racially mixed readership to feature a black model. Ms. Sims had been a 19-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan when she cold-called Mr. Peterson at his Upper East Side …

Getty Images White House Senior Advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reads a statment in front of West Wing of the White House after testifying behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election July 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. The …

But we are not meant to linger over such questions. Mr. Norris seems to acknowledge in the shagginess of his exposition that plays, existing so concretely in the world we know, are not always successful at delivering speculative alternatives. He wastes only enough energy on the setup to allow the …

Mr. Smith, the historian David Gilmour wrote in the British newspaper The Independent in 1997, “upset a well-defended orthodoxy that had been entrenched for almost a century.” Photo Credit University of Michigan Press In “Italy: A Modern History,” published in 1959, Mr. Smith caused further outrage by refusing to regard …

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, hired a Democratic pollster and former top advisor to President Barack Obama as a consultant, according to a report from Politico. …

Hunt is a deceptively experimental writer. Her sentences flow, her people seem real, her plots more or less cohere. But she is nearly always playing with form on a cellular level. “All Hands,” as it starts, is narrated by a Coast Guard officer who falls off an oil tanker into …

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, July 19, 2017. Tesla is not considering raising more equity at this point, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday “We are …

Photo James Van Der Beek as the title character in “What Would Diplo Do?” Credit Shane McCauley/Viceland James Van Der Beek, who came to fame playing the heart-on-his-sleeve hero of “Dawson’s Creek,” is making a midcareer move into alt-comedy. It might seem counterintuitive, but it kind of works, because Mr. …

Photo Lou Wilson and Carly Jibson in “The Guest Book.” Credit Doug Hyun/TBS It is, apparently, the Summer of the Anthology Series About a Rental Property. Last week HBO rolled out “Room 104,” which builds each episode around someone who occupied a particular motel room. On Thursday TBS takes the …

Just last week, TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon correctly called for an oil rally, but he now believes the crude comeback is over. Gordon initially predicted that the oil-tracking ETF USO could hit as high as $11, which would take it back to April highs. Since his July 25 call, USO …