Summer is here. The days are bright, and the evenings are long. And amateur athletes of all shapes and sizes have been heading to city parks to play on baseball diamonds and soccer fields in all five boroughs.

Congress has passed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill into law that includes more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade. These are estimated to take health care away from an estimated 20 million Americans and will result in the death of 51,000 people nationwide. The law exempts people with disabilities from losing individual coverage, but the scale of the cuts means many Americans will be affected.

Dear Eric: I am 40 and physically disabled. I need a powered wheelchair to get around both outside and inside my apartment. Recently, my tires were popped by some broken glass from a bottle thrown out of a passing car onto the sidewalk. It has been a week since I have been able to use my wheelchair, and I have another 20 days before my new tires arrive. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be …

It didn’t take long for Cam Schlittler to demonstrate his scintillating stuff.

The man — suspected of shooting Raqiese Cohen, 21, in the neck on W. 17th St. the night of June 4 — was seen in the image wearing a blue sweatshirt, and ran away heading east on 18th St. and Eighth Ave., cops said.

Ellen Terry once said: “We players know quite well and accept with philosophy the fact that when we have done we are forgotten”. Yet, of all her contemporaries, Terry has always been more than a theatrical ghost. She is Julia Margaret Cameron’s beautiful dreamer, an epistolary match for George Bernard Shaw, and the heart of […]

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When, in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow (1921), the young poet Denis Stone breakfasts with the hard-of-hearing Jenny Mullion, she disregards his question about her night’s sleep, starting instead with thunderstorms. “Parallel straight lines meet only in infinity”, Denis reflects sourly as his companion discusses the importance of lying down during lightning strikes in order to […]

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Drayton and Mackenzie – not a gentleman’s outfitters, but a novel – is an example of a genre that has become vanishingly rare of late: the capacious, ambitious, politically engaged Bildungsroman, in this case one that follows two friends from their callow undergraduate days to the moral maturity of adulthood and a deeper understanding of […]

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In her elegant, calmly unsettling debut novel, Heather Clark illustrates how the cold shadow of German history bleeds constantly into the present, even in the most intimate spheres. Inspired by the Second World War scrapbook of her grandfather, who fought as an American GI in Germany, The Scrapbook is ostensibly a love story, or, rather, […]

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