Tai Kin Ip is no longer Macau’s Secretary for Economy and Finance, having exited the post “for personal reasons”, according to a Macau government statement issued on Thursday (April 16). The step was ...

The BBC plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget. The national broadcaster announced the layoffs on ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - A “Next of Kin” bill designed to ease hospital bottlenecks is headed to the governor’s desk after passing the state Senate. The bill would allow close family members — including ...

Delroy Lindo stars as Delta Slim, a gifted and haunted blues musician, in ‘Sinners.’ It's a performance that has earned Lindo his first Academy Award nomination. He wants to win, but he says he won't ...

Tayari Jones begins her superb new novel "Kin" with the harrowing start to life for two girls born in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in the 1940s. Vernice is six months old when her parents die in a burst of ...

At the end of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, an aging Newland Archer, who as a young man broke his own heart by choosing propriety over love, tells himself that the mark of the modern era is ...

Between 2020 and 2023, Tayari Jones lost three longtime friends. While COVID-19 was not a direct cause, Jones said, she saw their deaths as “collateral damage” of the pandemic. The author recalls how ...

An intersection was closed Sunday evening as police investigate a crash on Green Bay's west side. City of New London imposes curfew for non-residents in north side neighborhood The city of New London ...

When a character refers to the dual narrators of “Kin” as “crib sisters,” he’s immediately informed that the correct term is “cradle,” not “crib.” There’s a reason for that distinction, I think.

Tayari Jones’s great subject is family loyalty. Her deeply felt novels are driven by what makes families and what breaks them. “Kin,” set in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s, focuses on the ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...