I’d just finished and loved Miranda July’s novel “All Fours” last year when my colleague Marie Solis wrote a profile of July with the headline, “She Wrote the First Great Perimenopause Novel.” This was the first time I’d heard the book mentioned in these superlative terms. “All Fours” is about a woman in her 40s who sets off on a road trip from California to New York but gets waylaid a few miles from home, rents a motel room and stays there for three weeks, during which time she reconsiders all the received ideas she’s internalized about being a wife,…
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In the eyes of many of his fellow Greenlanders, Jorgen Boassen is a traitor.A few weeks ago at a dive bar in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, someone slugged him in the face, sending him to the hospital. But whatever the consequences of his convictions, he insists he isn’t scared.“The United States has my back,” he said.Mr. Boassen, 51, a former bricklayer, is a fervid supporter of President Trump. He campaigned for him in the United States and helped coordinate Donald Trump Jr.’s visit to Greenland this year. On his coffee table at home, three pristine MAGA hats occupy a place of…
People visit the booth of battery manufacturer CATL, at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China 2024, in Beijing, China, April 25, 2024. Tingshu Wang | ReutersChinese battery manufacturer CATL aims to raise at least HK$31.01 billion ($3.99 billion) in its Hong Kong listing, according to its prospectus filed on Monday, the largest new share sale in the city this year.The maker of batteries for electric vehicles is selling 117.9 million shares at a maximum offer price of HK$263 per share, according to filings lodged with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.The size of the deal could increase to about $5.3 billion if an…
The two candidates who will fight it out to win election as South Korea’s next president overcame great odds to get where they are. Lee Jae-myung was a teenage sweatshop worker whose family survived on rotten fruits. Kim Moon-soo was imprisoned and tortured for anti-government activism. Both survived weeks of political and legal turbulence that threatened to upend their presidential bid.Now, as the official campaign for the June 3 poll kicks off on Monday, Mr. Lee and Mr. Kim have emerged as two main contenders. They represent opposite sides of a political divide that is unlikely to be bridged, even…
Six weeks ago, a van piled high with flowers pulled up at the International Criminal Court’s detention center in The Hague. The court also received deliveries of birthday cards. Lots and lots of them.They were all for the newest inmate, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, who turned 80 on March 28. He is accused of crimes against humanity, and he could spend the rest of his life in prison.“The place was inundated with flowers, and I brought some of the mail out because they didn’t know what to do with it,” Nicholas Kaufman, Mr. Duterte’s lawyer, said…
The Kannai and Chukagai district at night, the hub of Yokohama’s Chinese district and thriving Chinatown entertainment and business district, full of shops, cafes, and restaurants.Copyright Artem Vorobiev | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets are set to mostly rise Monday over optimism that U.S.-China trade tensions could de-escalate following the superpowers’ talks in Switzerland over the weekend.Both countries alluded to a positive conclusion of the high-stakes trade talks, with U.S. officials touting a deal to reduce its trade deficit, while Chinese leaders said that they have arrived at an “important consensus.”U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted that the talks yielded “a…
Pope Leo is a lifelong American citizen. But as Pope, he is also the leader of Vatican City, an internationally recognized sovereign nation. Can an American citizen lead a foreign nation? And can a Pope retain foreign citizenship?The answers are yes and yes — but it rarely happens.United States law allows dual citizenship. According to the State Department, a dual citizen who became a foreign head of state would not necessarily lose American citizenship if he or she wanted to keep it.And the Holy See lets a Pope retain other citizenships. Pope Francis retained his Argentine nationality and even renewed…
Hamas, the Palestinian armed group, said on Sunday night that it would free Edan Alexander, the last living American citizen held captive in Gaza, just days before President Trump is expected to arrive in the region for the first major foreign tour of his second term.In a statement, Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s lead negotiator, did not say when Mr. Alexander would be released and what, if anything, Hamas would get in exchange. But the Trump administration hoped Mr. Alexander would be released as soon as Monday, said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersU.S. stock futures surged Sunday night after the Trump administration announced a “trade deal” with China following negotiations over the weekend in Switzerland.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rallied 524 points, or 1.3%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures jumped 1.4% and 1.5%, respectively.Without providing specifics, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the trade talks with Chinese officials that took place in Geneva were “productive” and yielded “a great deal” of productivity. Bessent said details would be provided in a briefing…
U.S. said it made ‘progress’ toward a deal with ChinaTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that the U.S. had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, and that more details would be announced today.Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative who joined Bessent for the talks, suggested that some form of a “deal” addressed U.S. national security concerns about China’s trade practices. He did not say whether the two nations had agreed to drop any of their punishing tariffs.China’s vice premier for economic policy, He Lifeng, described the talks as “candid, in-depth and constructive”…
