PERFECTION, by Vincenzo Latronico. Translated by Sophie Hughes.

Athol Fugard, an acclaimed South African playwright whose works explored the brutality of his country’s apartheid regime, using anger and empathy to protest the dehumanizing effects of racial ...

He performed the first double axel and first triple jump in competition and was credited with inventing the flying camel spin Dick Button, who has died aged 95, won two Olympic golds for figure ...

Dick Button, who has died aged 95, won two Olympic golds for figure skating and was regarded as one of the most dynamic and athletic innovators in his sport.

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(JTA) — Richard Wexler, who led the effort to combine U.S. Jewish fundraising bodies into a single behemoth and then become one of the resulting group’s most trenchant critics, has died at 80.