REPRODUCTIONBy Ian Williams In his 2012 poem “Rings,” the Canadian writer Ian Williams turns a verse from Genesis, “Give me children, or else I die,” into a wry refrain. As it appears alongside mundane domestic choices like whether to adopt a pet or redecorate, the desperation of the verse gives …

Artist Sergei Pronin works on a painting, which depicts a monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, in an art gallery in Zheleznovodsk, Russia April 15, 2020. Sergei Pronin, aged 31, stayed at the Pushkin city gallery to continue his work and guard the building during a self-isolation regime, which was …

LOS ANGELES — Just a few weeks ago, Hollywood’s global assembly lines were spinning at full speed. Crews were working on Universal’s latest “Jurassic World” installment and Disney’s live-action “Little Mermaid” in Britain. Guillermo del Toro was in Toronto shooting “Nightmare Alley,” a Fox Searchlight remake. Marvel had productions running …

Eva Holland grew up “carrying, as most of us do, a quiver of assorted fears,” she writes in her new book, “Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear.” But chief among them was the fear of losing her mother. She felt confident that such a loss could be …

Agnes Goyet, a Parisian artist who documented life in lockdown in a journal during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, paints on paper with watercolours in her apartment in Paris, France, April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS (Reuters) – From a bunch of radishes to a sleeping cat, Parisian Agnes Goyet …

There are scores of novels about World War II, but far fewer about what happened next. When we meet Zofia Lederman in August 1945 in Monica Hesse’s THEY WENT LEFT (Little, Brown, 364 pp., $17.99; ages 14 and up), she has spent her adolescence surviving the Birkenau and Gross-Rosen concentration …

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Werner Kogler attends a news conference during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria, April 17, 2020. Helmut Fohringer/Pool via REUTERS VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian cultural spaces including museums and libraries can reopen from mid-May as part of a gradual loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, the government …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian life model Leigh Pitchford casually poses with a towel partly draped over his naked body, ready to be sketched by a group of art students in Sydney. Model Leigh Pitchford poses for art students drawing his figure over a Zoom internet livestream class due to social …

FILE PHOTO: NFL Football – Super Bowl LIII – New England Patriots v Los Angeles Rams – Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. – February 3, 2019. Los Angeles Rams’ Todd Gurley II looks on during the match. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque General manager Les Snead and the Los Angeles Rams plan to …

Egyptian clown Ahmed Naser, prepares for making an entertainment performance to courage children to put on face masks as a preventive measure amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Darb Al-Ban district at Islamic Cairo, Egypt April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany CAIRO (Reuters) – …