2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box.The first thing you see when you walk in the door at Sawa, a new Lebanese restaurant in Park Slope, is not a host stand or a little vestibule...

2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyFor more than forty years, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along” was a problem in search of a solution. Loosely based on a Kaufman and Hart play of the same name, it opened on Broadway in 1981, in a production that Frank Rich, in the Times,...

2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyThis interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your in-box.This week’s story, “Beyond Imagining,” is the latest installment in your series of stories...

2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyAudio availableListen to this storyLore Segal reads. RUTHBessie, Lotte, Ruth, Farah, and Bridget, who had been lunching together for half a century, joined in later years by Ilka, Hope, and, occasionally, Lucinella, had agreed without the need for discussion that they...

2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyListen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter.Lore Segal reads her story “Beyond Imagining,” from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I...

2024-06-02T10:00:00.000ZSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyIn the spring of 1989, Chinese students protesting for democracy chose a site with unique symbolic power: Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. For centuries, the area has been marked by a colossal edifice known as tiananmen—the gate of heavenly peace—where leaders held forth....