His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s. In the ’90s, Nick Nolte played a character inspired by him in a Martin Scorsese film.

His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.

Photographs, via the Nickell family As a paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell was in high demand, studying ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, crop circles and appearances of Jesus, including one on a tortilla. His search for legendary creatures included …

His early hits were filled with sexual innuendo. But he later switched to a soulful political message that resonated in 1970s Jamaica and beyond.

The company, which has branched out from Greek-style yogurt, will invest more than $1 billion in the plant in the city of Rome.

As pontiff, Francis sought to build bridges with global corporate leaders, who sought audiences with him — but also to remind them about the need to look out for the poor.

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — or rage?

BEAUTY: THE TRADITION OF IMPERMANENCE “SEE THE TREE there? It’s turning red, right?” I looked to see what Kotaro Nishibori, the last manufacturer of paper umbrellas in Kyoto, was pointing at. On our left was a line of cherry trees, their leaves …

Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture.

To accompany this essay, the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi created an original series, “Kaze Hikaru” (Glittering, 2025), based on things growing for six weeks between February and March near where she lives in Futtsu, in Chiba Prefecture. “The …