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In Gentrifying Neighborhoods, He’s Lowering Rents
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Mark Ethridge, the managing principal at Ascent Housing, bought an apartment complex this spring in North Charleston, S.C., in a gentrifying neighborhood where the rents are rising fast.
Fair Housing Groups Sue HUD Over Funding Changes
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is changing a longstanding grant program so significantly that it will vastly curtail fair housing enforcement in much of the country, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday. Most fair housing law violations are investigated by small nonprofit groups around the country dedicated to promoting fair housing.
‘More Affordable’ Doesn’t Always Mean Homes Cost Less
In 81 percent of large counties in the United States, homes were less affordable in 2025 than they were 20 years earlier, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors. So where has housing become more affordable? It’s not where you might expect — nor is it necessarily good news. That’s because this measure of housing affordability does not mean the houses cost less, just that housing costs take up a smaller percentage of a local family’s income.
Fair Housing Groups Sue HUD Over Funding Changes
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is changing a long-standing grant program so significantly that it will vastly curtail fair housing enforcement in much of the country, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday. Most fair housing law violations are investigated by small nonprofit groups around the country dedicated to promoting fair housing.
Fair Housing Groups Sue HUD Over Funding Changes
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is changing a long-standing grant program so significantly that it will vastly curtail fair housing enforcement in much of the country, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday. Most fair housing law violations are investigated by small nonprofit groups around the country dedicated to promoting fair housing.
Largest Landlord in the U.S. Accused of Widespread Fair Housing Violations
Largest Landlord in the U.S. Accused of Widespread Fair Housing Violations Greystar turned away apartment applicants trying to use housing vouchers to pay rent, according to a watchdog group.
What to Know About Manhattan Office Conversions The city has encouraged more complex office-to-residential conversions to fight the housing crisis. Several streets in Midtown were blocked off on Tuesday as officials feared for a partial collapse of 235 East 42nd St, center.Credit...Angelina Katsanis/Associated Press July 7, 2026, 6:43 p.m. ET A Manhattan building that once was the Pfizer headquarters , blocking off several streets in East Midtown.
How Much Can My Landlord Raise the Rent?
How Much Can My Landlord Raise the Rent? As New York City considers a rent freeze, a look at how cities and states across the U.S. keep costs in check. The New York City Rent Guidelines Board will vote on increases or potentially freeze the rent for millions of New Yorkers this week.Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images June 23, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET If a house or apartment is rent stabilized or rent controlled, it means that a landlord can only raise the rent by a prescribed, limited amount.
More Shelters Make Room for Four-Legged Friends
Father Joe's Villages is a homeless shelter and detox facility in downtown San Diego that can house about 800 people a night. On a campus spread across several city blocks, it offers on-site health and dental clinics, a therapeutic childcare center and vocational training in disciplines such as welding and facilities management. Father Joe's also offers dog crates, kibble and pet-washing stations with friendly blue tiles, because anyone who stays there is welcome to bring pets.
Real Estate Giants Compass and Zillow Fight Over the Future of the Market
Real Estate Giants Compass and Zillow Fight Over the Future of the Market Both companies face lawsuits and antitrust inquiries as they attempt to control the experience of home buying.
More Shelters Make Room for Four-Legged Friends
Father Joe’s Villages is a homeless shelter and detox facility in downtown San Diego that can house about 800 people a night. On a campus spread across several city blocks, it offers on-site health and dental clinics, a therapeutic child care center and vocational training in disciplines like welding and facilities management. Father Joe’s also offers dog crates, kibble and pet-washing stations with friendly blue tiles, because anyone who stays there is welcome to bring pets.
5 Money Lessons From Readers in the Trenches of Elder-Parent Care
5 Money Lessons From Readers in the Trenches of Elder-Parent Care Generation X-ers and others shared stories of family crises, and we asked experts how to think about living longer than you expect.
Inside a Once-Grand Building That Housed the Vulnerable for a Century
The hulking brick building on 30th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan was conceived with the best of intentions. Proposed by an “alienist,” as psychiatrists used to be called, who believed his patients deserved the best, it was built nearly 100 years ago as the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, with a light-filled auditorium, Juliet balconies and open views of the East River.
Sally Librera | Women of Influence
For Sally Librera, the key to managing the complexities of the energy industry is in balancing the big picture and daily details. As National Grid New York’s president, that’s also a skill set she expects from her team.
Homelessness, Benefit Cuts, Budget Woes: A New Commissioner’s Challenges Original
Erin Dalton, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, comes into the role confronting a daunting list of challenges. There are 85,000 people in city shelters. Many thousands of New Yorkers are likely to lose their federal benefits, including health care and food assistance. And the city is facing a multibillion-dollar budget gap.
Poverty in New York City Inched Higher in 2024 for Third Year in a Row Original
More than a quarter of New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024, and more than 50 percent said high costs prevented them at least once that year from doing things like buying food, paying their utility bills or seeing a doctor, according to a report released on Monday on the affordability crisis in New York City.
The Challenge of Helping Homeless People Who Avoid New York’s Shelters
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.
Mamdani Administration to Close Massive Homeless Shelter in Manhattan Original
You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Mamdani Administration to Close Massive Homeless Shelter in Manhattan The 30th Street Shelter at the former Bellevue psychiatric hospital has been in disrepair for years.
El último adiós de los libros de bolsillo
Cuando se publicó el primer libro de la serie Bridgerton en 2000, se reconocía inmediatamente como una novela romántica. La portada era rosa y morada, con un tipo de letra en bucle, y como la mayoría de las novelas románticas de la época, se imprimió en una edición de bolsillo. Corto, grueso e impreso en papel delgado con márgenes estrechos, era el tipo de libro que encontrarías en estanterías de metal en supermercados o aeropuertos y comprarías por unos cuantos dólares.
The Book Jackets Were Ready. Then Charlie Kirk Was Shot.
In August, boxes filled with copies of a novel about a sex worker who assassinates a right wing politician arrived at the midtown Manhattan offices of the publisher Simon & Schuster. The books were galleys — paperbacks printed before final publication and sent to booksellers, influencers and the media to drum up interest. On each cover, in boldface capital lettering, were the words, “SOMEBODY HAD TO DO IT.” A few weeks later, the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
The Book Jackets Were Ready. Then Charlie Kirk Was Shot.
The senator said she initially “didn’t care” until she realized some of the victims were “9 years old.” A GOP senator is suddenly furious about the …
Saying Goodbye to the Mass Market Paperback
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. When the first book in the Bridgerton series was published in 2000, it was immediately recognizable as a romance novel. The cover was pink and purple, with a looping font, and like most romances at the time, it was printed as a mass market paperback.
From ‘Buckeye’ to ‘Mona’s Eyes’: 5 Breakout Novels of 2025
SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. This year, the best-seller lists were again saturated with new releases from blockbuster authors like Dan Brown, John Grisham, James Patterson and Suzanne Collins.
Hear James Baldwin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, and More
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Kurt Vonnegut reads at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in 1970.Credit...Jack Prelutsky Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Dec. 19, 2025 Tom Wolfe was a fast talker. Eudora Welty had a musical Southern drawl. Kurt Vonnegut’s jokes got belly laughs.
Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Books That Examine the Past and Present of the Middle East Take National Book Awards Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.
To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks
Trump says he's 'not happy' with air traffic controllers who wouldn't work without pay during shutdown The president, whose staff explored ways to skirt a law requiring back pay for federal workers after the shutdown ends, said "they all knew the money is coming." President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated criticism of air traffic controllers who have been absent during parts of the record-long …
Bookstore Food Drives Help Food Stamp Recipients
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries. Anna Lindvay, who works at Werner Books, packs boxes of donated food.Credit...Andrea Wenglowskyj for The New York Times Nov.
Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka Says the U.S. Revoked His Visa Original
The Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka said Tuesday that the visa allowing him to visit the United States was revoked this month. In a letter, the U.S. consulate general in Lagos, Nigeria, did not cite a specific reason for the revocation, saying only that “additional information became available” after the visa was issued last spring.
2025 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced
Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize. Clockwise from top left: Rabih Alameddine; Yiyun Li; Karen Russell; Omar El AkkadCayce Clifford for The New York Times; Hannah Yoon for The New York Times; Annette Hornischer; Kateshia Pendergrass Oct.
‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states. Among the books most banned by schools in 2024-25 were (clockwise from top left): “A Clockwork Orange,” “Last Night at the Telegraph Club,” “Breathless,” “A Court of Mist and Fury” and “Sold.” Oct.
Robert Barnett, Washington Master of the Book World Megadeal, Dies at 79 Original
A powerhouse Washington lawyer, he negotiated blockbuster contracts for A-list clients, including the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bushes, while often acting as their consigliere. Robert Barnett in his Washington law office in 2004. He was “an indispensable political adviser,” Hillary Clinton said. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris Sept. 26, 2025, 7:06 p.m. ET Robert B.
Fox News Books Gives Fox News Authors a Path to the Best-Seller List Original
One of this fall’s breakout debut novelists isn’t a romance writer or a recent graduate from a prestigious M.F.A. program. It’s Trey Gowdy, a former Republican Congressman and current Fox News host, whose crime novel, “The Color of Death,” debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list. Gowdy says he can’t take too much credit for the book’s success, however. That’s the work of his publisher: Fox News Books.
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years. “I like to say poetry must resist all forms of coercion,” says Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate.Credit... Shawn Miller/Library of Congress Sept.
La familia de Virginia Giuffre cuestiona la publicación de sus memorias Original
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Los familiares de Virginia Roberts Giuffre, quien acusó a Jeffrey Epstein de abuso sexual y de haberla traficado cuando era adolescente, dicen que ella no quería que sus memorias póstumas, anunciadas recientemente, se publicaran en su forma actual.
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Jonathan Karp to Step Down as Head of Simon & Schuster
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Simon & Schuster Leader to Step Down Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year. “I never saw myself as CEO for life,” said Jonathan Karp, who was a longtime editor and publisher before taking the top job at Simon & Schuster.Credit...via Simon and Schuster Aug.
'How to Sleep at Night,' by Elizabeth Harris Original
HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, by Elizabeth Harris The witty opening of Elizabeth Harris's "How to Sleep at Night" finds Ethan Keller confessing "something terrible" to his husband, Gabe: He wants to run for Congress. Ethan is a Republican, but Gabe is a Democrat, and Ethan says he won't run if Gabe says no. Wanting to support his husband's dreams and fearing the resentment a refusal could bring, Gabe agrees.
How to Not Fight With Your Family About Politics Original
My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist church; a retired Jewish banker on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; a theater director in Florida; a contractor in Louisville; a lawyer in Boston; and a gay Republican. Talking about politics at our family gatherings can be like smoking a cigarette at a gas station—there’s a good chance it will make the whole place explode.
How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar
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How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a quiet process called weeding. Weeding normally allows librarians to keep collections current, but some lawsuits argue that it has been used instead to remove books for content about racism, sexuality and gender.
How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short Original
When Lisa Lucas was hired in the summer of 2020 to take a big job at the country's largest book publisher, there was a sense that things were finally starting to change in what has long been an overwhelmingly white industry. Lucas, who became the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, imprints within Penguin Random House, was an unusual choice for the job. Executives in the book business often spend decades working their way up the ranks.
Book With Project 2025 Ties and JD Vance Foreword Is Delayed Until After Election
The book's author is Kevin D. Roberts, the president of Heritage Foundation, which coordinated the right-wing policy blueprint that has come under fire from Democrats. Kevin D. Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation, the group that coordinated Project 2025, which was intended to be a policy blueprint for the next Republican president. Credit... Leigh Vogel for The New York Times The publication of a book written by Kevin D.
Bob Woodward to Publish 'War' This Fall
The author and journalist Bob Woodward will publish a new book this fall called "War," his publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced on Wednesday. The book, which will be released on Oct. 15, will focus on Ukraine, the Middle East and the "raw cage-fight of politics" of the 2024 election. "For more than 50 years, Woodward has done groundbreaking reporting on every president, starting with Richard Nixon," Jonathan Karp, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster and Woodward's editor, said in a statement.
The Author of 'Red, White and Royal Blue' Is Back, With More Spice and No Shame Original
Until a few years ago, mainstream publishers considered queer romance novels a niche business, a little slice of the market that served a particular population that would never going to deliver a blockbuster. Enter Casey McQuiston, who has published three queer romance novels, each of them a blockbuster. There are more than 3 million copies of McQuiston's books in print across formats, and they are best sellers not only in the United States but in other countries too, like Brazil and Poland.
From Harlem to Selma to Paris, James Baldwin's Life in Pictures
Friday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, the author of incandescent masterpieces including "The Fire Next Time," "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Giovanni's Room." Life took him from a boyhood as the eldest son of a preacher in Harlem to the American South during the Civil Rights Movement. He also spent years in Istanbul, Paris and the South of France, where he died in 1987 at age 63.
Despu├ęs de la muerte de Alice Munro, su hija relata un oscuro secreto familiar
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Andrea Skinner, hija de la premio nobel canadiense Alice Munro, dijo que su padrastro abusó sexualmente de ella cuando era niña, y que su madre lo sabía, y optó por quedarse con él de todos modos. Skinner, quien ya es adulta, detalló estas acusaciones en un ensayo publicado el domingo en el Toronto Star.
Weeks after Alice Munro’s death, daughters tells of sexual abuse by stepfather
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Weeks After Alice Munro's Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret Original
Andrea Robin Skinner, a daughter of the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child - and that her mother knew about it, and chose to stay with him anyway. Skinner, who is now an adult, detailed these accusations in an essay in the Toronto Star on Sunday. According to a separate in the Toronto Star, Skinner went to the Ontario police, and in 2005, her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, was charged with indecent assault against her. He pleaded guilty.
After a Wrenching Best Seller, an Author Takes Up Her Dream Project Original
Chanel Miller has wanted to be a children's book author and illustrator since the second grade, when she started writing stories that her teacher, Mrs. Thomas, would laminate. But her first published book, despite being a best seller and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, was not at all what she'd wished for.
'A Real Revolution Is Cultural' Original
The author, known for her "Persepolis" series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini. Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series, "Persepolis," about growing up in and leaving Tehran, won her international acclaim and millions of book sales, turned away from the form two decades ago and hadn't looked back since.
Simon & Schuster Turns 100 With a New Owner and a Sense of Optimism Original
What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped it grow.
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