A bad one can ruin a race, but pit teams that can move like Rudolf Nureyev can shave time in a sport where split seconds count.

Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much …

“Gabriële” considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others.

Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid and utterly fascinating.

African music lost one of its titans last week with the death of Amadou Bagayoko, a guitarist who recorded with American rock stars, performed at the Nobel concert for Barack Obama, and became a national icon in his home, Mali. With his wife, the …

The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.