Lives: A Brief Vacation From Myself

I was looking in my closet, choosing a shirt, when I lost my mind. Four hours later, I'm in the E.R., and I don't know how I got here. My wife, Shawn, stands at my bedside, her expression alternating between reassuring and dismayed. Next to her,...

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Look: Images of Jazz Greats

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Googling Yourself Takes on a Whole New Meaning

Grant Cornett for The New York Times Here's what you see if you look at my face: a skinny titanium headband stretched across my forehead. It looks like a futuristic pair of sunglasses, minus the lenses. On my right-hand side there's a computer,...

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12 Minutes of Freedom in 460 Days of Captivity

When I describe what happened to me on Aug. 23, 2008, I say that I was taken. On an empty stretch of road outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, out of the back seat of a four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi by a dozen or so men whose faces were swaddled...

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Norman Rush’s Brilliantly Broken Promise

LaToya Ruby Frazier for The New York Times Elsa and Norman Rush at home. One afternoon at the end of the summer of 2011, on the shady porch of a little red farmhouse near High Tor, in Rockland County, N.Y., the novelist Norman Rush, vigorous at...

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Property values Homes for $625,000 A colonial with a surprising interior near Minneapolis, a stucco colonial in Pennsylvania and mountain views in Arizona. Behind the Wheel | 2014 Chevrolet Impala For America's Sedan,...

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The U.S. Open Issue: Roger Federer Can Still Get His Game Face On

Peter Hapak for The New York Times Postscript Appended On the first Wednesday of Wimbledon this June, under a bright early-evening sky, Roger Federer trailed two sets to one in his second-round match against Sergiy Stakhovsky, a Ukrainian ranked...

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The U.S. Open Issue: Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel

Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times The patch of Wimbledon grass known as the Graveyard of Champions was supposedly exorcised four years ago, when the blue-blazered gentlemen of the All England Lawn Tennis Club demolished Court 2, built a new grandstand...

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Eureka: Mutually Insured Destruction

In March 1947, a winter of heavy snowfall followed by a quick thaw and torrents of rain swelled rivers throughout England and Wales. Over the course of just 13 days, at least 27,000 homes and businesses were flooded. It was one of the worst natural...

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Great Tennis Writing From the Magazine

Ewing Galloway 1935 In 1890, when [H. W. Slocum Jr.] was champion, tennis was relatively soft. His advice about serving illustrates that. ''A very swift service is, in my opinion, a waste of energy,'' he gravely admonishes. By Frank...

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The U.S. Open Issue: Jimmy Connors, Ladies’ Man

Jeff Minton for The New York Times Postscript Appended Technically, Jimmy Connors wasn't the most overwhelming player. He was on the slight side; his serve was so-so, his forehand questionable. His only truly great stroke was his two-handed backhand....

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The U.S. Open Issue: Roger Federer Can Still Get His Game Face On

Peter Hapak for The New York Times Postscript Appended On the first Wednesday of Wimbledon this June, under a bright early-evening sky, Roger Federer trailed two sets to one in his second-round match against Sergiy Stakhovsky, a Ukrainian ranked...

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Great Tennis Writing From the Magazine

Ewing Galloway 1935 In 1890, when [H. W. Slocum Jr.] was champion, tennis was relatively soft. His advice about serving illustrates that. ''A very swift service is, in my opinion, a waste of energy,'' he gravely admonishes. By Frank...

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