A one-year-old has died from injuries sustained in a car accident involving the child’s mother on Wednesday night, Long Beach officials said. The Long Beach Police Department said it happened around 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the 5500 block of Ackerfield Avenue. Officers responded to calls of a traffic collision and arrived to find Long […]

The wrestling legend was 71.

New Yorkers know we need urgent action to address our housing crisis. The rent is too high and wages aren’t keeping pace. Forty percent of New Yorkers are rent-burdened: that’s two million of us who cannot afford our housing costs. Too many colleagues, friends, family and neighbors — from low-income families to middle-class professionals — are being forced out of the city. Businesses, too, are sounding the alarm: they cannot succeed if their employees can’t afford to live here. Our housing crisis makes our city less dynamic, less diverse, less competitive, less equitable. The status quo is not working.

After another night of atrocious baseball, the Yankees lost, 8-4.

Seascraper, Benjamin Wood’s fifth novel, depicts two days in the life of Thomas Flett, a young man who earns his living as a shanker – a man who rides a horse and cart up and down the beach netting for shrimp. It is a hard life, and it has taken its toll. At just twenty […]

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Roy Jacobsen’s depiction of Nazi-occupied Norway is informed and particular, a view of ordinary lives in extraordinary times. The war looms over the city of Oslo and the gates and courts of its working-class districts. Trams and horse-drawn carriages traverse the streets in snow and ice while aeroplanes circle overhead. The miseries of rationing are […]

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Towards the end of Ferdinand Mount’s latest novel, The Pentecost Papers, a plutocrat talks of the English penchant for “children’s books and secret codes”. You wouldn’t think that Enid Blyton would be the catalyst for ecological terrorism, but Blyton was educated via the Friedrich Froebel method, which emphasized nature, and she was aware of our […]

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There are eleven commendatory and dedicatory poems at the start of Ben Jonson’s comedy Volpone, or, The Fox, both as it first appeared in print in 1607 and in the new Arden edition edited by John Jowett. That’s a lot of praise. As Jowett tells us, the effect is to produce “a network of association […]

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Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, Fox, offers a prolonged dive into the murkiest of waters. Told by way of a chronology that is sometimes challengingly fractured, it follows the dreadful career of a literature teacher named Francis Harlan Fox at the elite Langhorne Academy in South Jersey. Fox appears to be charismatic, well liked and […]

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