Eat Oysters: A Love Story A simple, unfussy delicacy, enlivened by fat and heat. Credit... Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Amy Wilson. I met a man

Billy Farrell/BFA/REX/Shutterstock When Tina Fey vented about Charlottesville, neo-Nazis and Donald Trump while cramming her mouth with handfuls of a sheet cake decorated with an American flag on Weekend Update: Summer Edition last night, the internet went nuts. “Love Tina Fey, but I’m REALLY not…

Looking Back When the Copy Desk Was the ‘Heart of the Newspaper’ On the culture copy desk in 2007 were Peter Keepnews (at left), LaSharah Bunting (center foreground) and Mike Lewis (light blue shirt).

Nothing ruins a business owner’s day more than having one of their key employees quit. Even if they are quitting for a good reason, it feels like a failure. Putting a team together is hard work , and this is a tear in the fabric of that team. As soon as we get over the loss of that key person, the…

The Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who covered Donald Trump long before he entered the White House and has received threats because of her reporting. Photograph by Bob Daemmrich / Alamy One of the saving graces of the Trump era is the journalism it hasinspired. Maggie Haberman is a tireless,…

Business strategy is all about using uncertain information to make unalterable choices that best create and capture economic surplus. A successful strategist must find and exploit opportunities that e

The human voice:It's the instrument we all play.It's the most powerful soundin the world, probably.It's the only one that can start a waror say "I love you."And yet many people have the experiencethat

Shiona Guite would chant to her infant son, Malcolm, as they sailed every summer from Nigeria to England: “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free.” Those words from The Ri

G eoffrey Treloar’s The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson and Hammond feels like the culmination of a very long project. Back in 2003, historian Mark Noll inaugurated In

What is the future of the evangelical past? That was the question on the mind of Baylor historian — and Anxious Bench guest blogger — Elesha Coffman as she ended her recent Christianity Today review o

William J. Baumol, 95, ‘One of the Great Economists of His Generation,’ Dies William J. Baumol in 1981. His work influenced not only generations of economists but also policy makers, including the arc

Letter of Recommendation Letter of Recommendation: Stump the Bookseller A blog about children’s books demonstrates the universal pain of mostly forgotten memories. Credit... Photo illustration by John

New Sentences New Sentences: From ‘Serious Sweet’ by A.L. Kennedy Credit... Illustration by Kyle Hilton ‘Inside a pocket of his coat there was the flinch of his phone as it gathered a text, the small

I learned on Twitter earlier that John Sailhamer has passed away. Due to his failing health over the last decade, his last major project – was published way back in 2009. In our consumer-driven, what-

As any Bible reader knows, the infant Jesus was visited by Magi, who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and a cold coming they had of it. But where did they actually get these gifts from? However

I n October, popular evangelical blogger Jen Hatmaker announced her support for same-sex marriage. As Christian readers were still digesting this, popular evangelical “mommy blogger” Glennon Doyle Melton announced that, following her divorce, she had begun a same-sex relationship with soccer star…

A rain delay helped end a drought. The sky opened over downtown Cleveland that unseasonably warm Nov. 2 night, giving Cubs fans 17 long minutes to ponder their panic and question curses — a cat, a goat, a fan and a first baseman. Mother Nature also allowed Jason Heyward to summon the longtime…

I’ve just finished translating the Old Testament. “Excuse me?” you ask. Well, about eight years ago Philip Law (then of Westminster John Knox) invited me to write a series of commentaries called “The

There are countless stories of evangelicals who head off to Ph.D. programs in hopes of becoming a professor and having a positive influence in the secular university environment. This is particularly the case in the fields of biblical studies or philosophical theology. And such aspirations are…

When the Nobel Committee announced in October that it would award its prestigious literature prize to the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan , the news was met with both applause and outrage . “ Is Bob Dylan literature ?” the literature world asked, setting forth a deluge of think pieces.…

Would you start by telling our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? I grew up in Oklahoma, went to an Episcopal day school as a high school student, and had a rich education there

I’ve been taking some deep breaths. I was shocked but not surprised by the outcome of the 2016 election. I knew that Donald Trump could become president even though I honestly did not believe that he would. And to paraphrase Shakespeare’s Marc Antony, friends, Christians, and fellow Americans: lend…

Glennon Doyle Melton, the popular Momastery blogger, recently revealed that she is dating celebrity soccer player Abby Wambach. In her public Facebook declaration that she “is in love” and “really, deeply happy,” the author of two New York Times bestsellers has insisted that “the most revolutionary…

Illustration: Brian Stauffer By Will Schwalbe Nov. 25, 2016 9:11 am ET We all ask each other a lot of questions. But we should all ask one question a lot more often: “What are you reading?” It’s a sim

No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along Donald Trump at The New York Times on Tuesday. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper. As The Times reported ,…

Be it a favorite baseball team in reach of a World Series trophy for the first time in a century or a grave injustice somewhere in the world, we all have passions that catalyze us from apathy to action. I think the best activists for any worthy cause are those who have a deep, personal connection to…

The drought, as all eventually do, ended with help from above. Rain, glorious cool rain on a strangely warm November evening, fell on -Progressive Field in Cleveland just as the Cubs were about to flush away their 108th consecutive season without a World Series title, in their most harrowing manner…

CLEVELAND -- At least it didn't take anything special to wipe out the longest title drought in the history of professional sports. Only the greatest World Series Game 7 ever played. That's all. Move over, Jack Morris and Luis Gonzalez . Tell Ralph Terry and Madison Bumgarner they had a great run.…

I recently met a non-Christian at an event for leaders in the nonprofit sector. When she found out I was an evangelical, she asked me, with great respect and complete sincerity, “Why are Christians so mean?” I suspect she was referring to American evangelicals. Christians are an incredibly diverse…

CLOSE The Arizona Republic Editorial Board discusses presidential endorsement What is the correct response to these threats? Today, I offer you a few. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of Republic Media, which includes The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. (Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic) CONNECT COMMENT…

[[DownloadsSidebar]] For two scholars representing opposing schools of thought, Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein find a surprising amount of common ground. Kahneman, a psychologist, won the Nobel Prize

[[DownloadsSidebar]] One of the most important questions facing leaders is when they should trust their gut instincts—an issue explored in a dialogue between Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychol

A s I write these words, American pundits and political junkies are struggling to come to terms with some curious, even alarming, developments. Donald Trump has claimed the Republican presidential nom

Rudy Van Gelder in 1988 at the home studio that he designed himself in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Credit James Estrin/The New York Times Rudy Van Gelder, an audio engineer whose work with Miles Davis , John Coltrane and numerous other musicians helped define the sound of jazz on record, died on Thursday…

Today I am interviewing Jonathan Yeager , religion professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and author of the recently released Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture (Oxford Un

Just like the most oft-employed metaphor for the human body is that of a machine , the city is most commonly and comfortably likened to a living organism . But nowhere does this metaphor spring to life more viscerally than on the busy sidewalk of a densely populated metropolis, where people, as if…

DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has…

The Oxford comma baffles, enrages, and delights people. But where did it come from? Who invented it? Why does it refer to a famous English university? Let’s look at the history of the Oxford comma. Th

Below is the full text from the keynote speech, “The Curious Incident of the Book in the Digital Age,” delivered by Gail Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck of Bloomsbury, DBE, at the London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference on Monday, April 12. Good morning. When Jacks Thomas asked me to speak at the London Book…

Ev Williams is not a fan of the increasingly homogenised media he currently sees, with its emphasis on feeding the great, gaping maw of platforms like Twitter and Facebook too often producing what he