KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982By Cho Nam-Joo I hated reading “Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982,” the debut novel by Cho Nam-Joo, which is the opposite of saying that I hated the book itself. The story of a young stay-at-home mother driven to a psychotic break, it laid bare my own Korean childhood …

[ Read an excerpt from “The Address Book.” ] ImageDeirdre Mask populates her daunting inquiries with a cast of stirring meddlers whose curiosity, outrage and ambition inspire them to confront problems ignored by indifferent bureaucracies.Credit…via Deirdre Mask Mask, an American journalist who lives in London, pops in on historians, scientists, …

Interning at the podcasting company Odeo, a 22-year-old Systrom sat next to a 29-year-old engineer, Jack Dorsey. Improbably, this N.Y.U. dropout “with an anarchist tattoo and a nose ring” befriended him. Odeo eventually gave rise to Twitter, an idea he’d dismissed (“They’re crazy, Systrom thought. Nobody is going to use …

BRAISED PORKBy An Yu After her husband dies in a bathtub at home, Jia Jia finds a sketch of a half-man, half-fish sitting atop a stack of towels. “Braised Pork,” by An Yu, opens with the mystery of this man’s death — was it a suicide? did he drown? — …

Even when the Strokes were a brand-new band, nostalgia was a big part of their appeal. “In many ways, they’ll miss the good old days/Someday,” Julian Casablancas sang on “Someday” from the Strokes’s 2001 debut album, “Is This It.” At the time, the Strokes were already being hailed as a …

Image THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE Surviving the Crisis By Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac The first question to ask when reading “The Future We Choose” is, Who exactly is the “we” of the title? Figueres, who helped facilitate the passage of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and Rivett-Carnac, a …

There’s a bit of both Frederick Seidel and T.S. Eliot in the press of her sentences, the crisp progress of her rhyming couplets. They capture the city in what seems to be the early aughts: Once a year you go in a cab to the Bohemian Beer GardenAnd eat pink, …

Image THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE Surviving the Crisis By Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac The first question to ask when reading “The Future We Choose” is, Who exactly is the “we” of the title? Figueres, who helped facilitate the passage of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and Rivett-Carnac, a …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian ballet dancers on partial lockdown have begun giving performances at home to keep fans engaged online after theatres across the country closed their doors due to the coronavirus. Seven dancers from the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, one of Russia’s most prominent troupes, have been filming …

(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) on Thursday said it plans to ship millions of face masks to its active drivers and food delivery people around the world to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: Uber and Lyft driver Adama Fofana, who says he and other …