Artist David “S.I.D.” Perez poses in front of his graffiti of a cashier to pay tribute to essential workers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Gland, Switzerland, April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse GLAND, Switzerland (Reuters) – Street artist David Perez has found his own way to pay tribute in …

One woman started the pushback against the pill dumping. After her brother’s overdose from opioids, Debbie Preece began asking questions about Sav-Rite. She got help from a sympathetic lawyer, and later from Eyre, who drove through the state’s towns and hollows in his Honda Civic. ImageEric Eyre, whose new book, …

If you’ve read only a few of Don Winslow’s books, you may not realize what a shape-shifter he is. His bravura Cartel trilogy, with its 40-year wingspan and brutally detailed knowledge of Mexican drug gangs, isn’t much like his darkly hilarious “Savages,” which itself barely shows how deeply his early …

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Patricia Bosworth, who gave up acting for the writing life, turning her knowledge of the theater into a series of biographies and mining her own extraordinary life for a pair of powerful memoirs, died …

Photography and the mythos of the American cowboy have been lassoed together almost from birth. Even when they weren’t working hand in hand, they were often in close company. The most famous showdown in the Old West, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, took place not at the corral but …

“American Weekend,” the bracing first album the songwriter Katie Crutchfield released as Waxahatchee, was “a result of a snowstorm, a visceral stupor, and a personal breakthrough,” she wrote in the liner notes. Stranded for a week in her parents’ home near Alabama’s Waxahatchee Creek, she found out in winter 2011 …

Read Irby because she understands the mutinies of the body. She understands suffering and uncertainty, and is wildly, seditiously funny on both. Read Irby because she knows what it means to live with a fair amount of panic and largely indoors. She suffers from depression (her new book is dedicated …