“I can honestly say that I’m the best printer in the world,” he told Calvin Tomkins of The New Yorker in 1990. “It’s my gift.” Mr. Tomkins noted that Mr. Benson had made his boast sound self-deprecating. Continue reading the main story In 1981, Mr. Benson was asked to reproduce …

One contestant, Sky Nathan Frank, 17, who attends the San Diego School of Creative & Performing Arts, said that meeting Mr. Platt was one of the highlights of his week. “Being around actors like him in New York, I can feel the energy in the streets,” Mr. Frank said. Continue …

Richard Brian | Reuters Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Co-Managing Partner at SkyBridge Capital, speaks during the opening remarks during the SALT conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2017. Hedge fund industry executive Anthony Scaramucci, an advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has been named chief strategy officer of the …

Goldman Sachs told clients that the environment is more difficult for picking stocks of quality companies, and as a result investors should be willing to accept longer holding periods and hold fewer stocks. The Wall Street firm has revised a list of recommended stocks it calls the GS Sustain 50 …

Photo Angela C. Agrusa, a lawyer for Bill Cosby, speaking to reporters in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Credit Reed Saxon/Associated Press The confusion over Bill Cosby’s planned series of summer town hall meetings continued on Tuesday as one of his lawyers suggested they may not happen at all. Last week, …

Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly praised her “friend,” former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, at an event on Tuesday and suggested he might not have known about the toxic culture at Uber because the company grew so quickly. “I …

Crude stocks were expected to fall by 3.25 million barrels, according to a survey of analysts by S&P Global Platts. A Reuters survey showed analysts anticipated a 2.5 million barrel drop. The API figures capture a smaller portion of total U.S. storage than official government data and frequently diverge significantly …

“I always felt that this was the grail,” Robert Weil, Liveright’s editor-in-chief, said. “That just getting Nelson Mandela’s actual words to reflect his courage, his wisdom and the unspeakable horrors he went through would be something of extreme historical importance.” Continue reading the main story The letters, many never seen …

NASA | Getty Images In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lift off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for their eighth official Commercial Resupply (CRS) mission on April 8, 2016 in Cape …

Photo The host of Explode! Queer Dance on Saturday night was the South Asian drag queen LaWhore Vagistan. Credit Paula Lobo for The New York Times As audience members took their seats for the final performance of Explode! Queer Dance on Saturday night, the choreographer, performer and dance scholar Thomas …