Editorialbell hooks, feminist, scholar and writer at her Manhattan apartment on Nov. 11, 1996. bell hooks, whose incisive, wide-ranging writing on gender and race helped push feminism beyond its white, middle-class worldview to include the voices of Black and working-class women, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 69. Her sister Gwenda Motley said the cause was end-stage renal failure. (Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times)
EditorialSophie Allison, who records as Soccer Mommy and performs emotionally incisive indie rock, in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 10, 2019. (Whitten Sabbatini/The New York Times)
EditorialCarter, the Colorman, ca. 1680, Red chalk heightened with touches of black chalk and graphite, sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 in. (26 x 20.3 cm), Drawings, Charles Beale (British, London 1660?1714 London), Charles Beale II's remarkable red chalk studies of family m...