Unflinching

Giving birth in the United States is diabolical. Or at least it is according to Beverly Mantle, one of two identical-twin OB-GYNs played by Rachel Weisz in the Prime Video miniseries “Dead…

Marina Silva hails from a part of Brazil so remote that even Brazilians say it is not real. O Acre não existe — Acre doesn’t exist — goes the bon mot, a playful nod to the isolation…

Loretta Lynn had a voice made for telling the truth.High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star…

One might not expect Andrea Arnold, the English filmmaker known for her intimately harrowing narrative features “Fish Tank” and “American Honey,” to deliver a dialogue-free nonfiction film…

On the Shelf Very Cold People By Sarah MangusoHogarth: 208 pages, $26If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support…

In 1963, after Semmel had gotten a BFA from Pratt Institute, her husband’s firm relocated him to Madrid. “We went for a year,” she says, “and I stayed for seven and a half.” She liked how…

In May 2016, about six months after Mr. Musk’s remarks appeared in Fortune, a Model S owner, Joshua Brown, was killed in Florida when Autopilot failed to recognize a tractor-trailer crossing…