EditorialFirefighters work to evacuate a resident from one of several flooded areas in Ravenna, Italy on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Elisabetta Zavoli /The New York Times)
EditorialThe author Namwali Serpell, who teaches English at Harvard, where she is a full professor, at her home in New York, July 11, 2022. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)