In her epochal essay “Against Interpretation,” Susan Sontag concluded with a memorable flourish: “In place of a hermeneutics ...

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning. Here are the day's key developments: - The death toll from the continued Israeli onslaught on Gaza has reached 45,317, with 107,713 ...