Beyond the spiritual test of unrealized prophecies, there are very earthly stakes here: Under Mr. Strang’s stewardship, Charisma had grown from a church magazine to a multipronged institution with a […]
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Back to news home‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World
As a student at Peking University law school in 1978, Li Keqiang kept both pockets of his jacket stuffed with handwritten paper slips. An English word was written on one […]
New to the American Melting Pot, and Finding Its Taste Bittersweet
Imagine you’re a kid, joining your mom for a day at work. This is no corporate-sponsored occasion where you’ll raid the supply closet and nibble cookies frosted with the company […]
Tom Lin Makes His Debut With ‘The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu’
“Historically the Western has been this super masculine genre — the male cowboy, the male rancher, the male outlaw,” North said. “It’s a genre that was ripe to be reinvented […]
‘We Always Rise.’ A Black-Owned Bookstore in Newark Navigates the Pandemic
By summer, he closed off half the store and planned an expansion. Sawdust mixed with incense as he knocked down walls, raised the ceiling, transformed an elevator shaft into an […]
New York Post Reporter Who Wrote False Kamala Harris Story Resigns
Ms. Italiano, a veteran Post journalist and longtime chronicler of the New York City courts, is a well-liked figure in the paper’s newsroom. She did not respond to inquiries about […]
How Lin Qi’s Poisoning Death Shocked China
Chinese media, including official outlets, have widely identified the suspect as Xu Yao, an executive at Mr. Lin’s gaming company, Youzu Interactive, which goes by Yoozoo in English. Those reports […]
Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster
The biggest book publisher in the United States is about to get bigger. ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for more than $2 billion […]