However, the deal does little to resolve the United States’ biggest concerns about China’s trade practices.
WASHINGTON: When President Donald Trump and China confirmed Friday that...
Perumal Murugan, after having famously committed ‘literary suicide’ in 2015, has returned with a parable about village life, written with breathtaking and deceptive simplicity,...
Maurizio Cattelan’s installation piece entitled Comedian, which was basically a banana duct-taped to a gallery wall at Art Basel Miami Beach, made international headlines...
It was a conclusion as sappy-sweet as the climax of “Mean Girls,” when Lindsay Lohan’s character breaks apart her homecoming queen tiara and divides...
In his debut novel, which blends historical truth with fiction, director and scriptwriter Khalid Mohamed tells the story of six maverick sisters living through...
Rachel Goodwin, a makeup artist in Los Angeles, thinks we’re living through a rare makeup moment. “It hasn’t been this experimental since the 1980s,”...
Last week’s sales figures provide ample evidence of why the art market continues to defy predictions and to confound those looking for reliable results....
Vladimir Nabokov and D.H. Lawrence each wrote a major novel (Lolita, Lady Chatterley’s Lover) that was banned and unbanned and banned again before being...
Mimi Casteel hates the word “weeds,” particularly when referring to unexpected plants growing in her vineyard here in this hamlet in the Willamette Valley.
To...
Google said Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at...
Once upon a time, womenswear was rife with transparency. With miniskirts and spaghetti-strap dresses and tank tops. With fashions intended to show some skin...
Wine, which is among the most sensitive and nuanced of agricultural products, demonstrates how climate change is transforming traditions and practices that may be...
With a blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition fast approaching, the Louvre Museum in Paris and its production partners are fine-tuning a virtual reality tour...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry to three scientists who developed lithium-ion batteries, which have...
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian novelist Peter Handke were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the years 2018 and 2019 respectively. By...
You could be forgiven for drawing a connection between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s shocking colour palette and his character. It would be understandable enough, considering...
When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual, essayist, novelist and political activist, often told people, with...
Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose visually raw and personally expressive style was pivotal in changing the...
If Medvedev wins, he would become the first player outside the so-called Big Three—Federer, Novak Djokovic and Nadal—to win a major championship since Stan...
This, following a former employee’s accusations that he was fired for his conservative viewpoints.
Google has long prided itself on a workplace culture in which...
Browsing George Orwell’s books on Amazon, David Streitfeld comes across a number of counterfeit editions, with typos galore, missing pages and the original narratives...
When a debt crisis slammed the eurozone nearly a decade ago, Germany’s powerhouse economy helped lift troubled neighbours like Greece, Portugal and Spain above...
