Nicholas Casey

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.

In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.

While many armed rebels around the world are driven by extreme ideas, one elusive armed group is fighting for democracy — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North. Nicholas Casey, a New York Times Magazine reporter, and Moises Saman, a photographer, embedded with the group in territory it runs amid the civil war ravaging Sudan. As many as 150,000 people might be dead, and millions are displaced, though the chaos has made an accurate count impossible. As the rebels eye the next city to “liberate,” in their words, they seem more equipped for battle than for defending their people against a famine hurtling towards them.

We embedded with an elusive rebel group in the Nuba Mountains to document its side of the country’s civil war.

As the conflict in Sudan rages on, an army has built its own state within a state — a vision of what the nation could become.

As war killed all hope around her, Nevin Muhaisen fought to bring a new life into the world.

Issa Amro, who has been arrested and beaten for simple acts of defiance, is trying to pursue nonviolent resistance in the West Bank at a time when violence has become inescapable.

Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse.

The financier Sir James Goldsmith created two lavish retreats in Mexico that are now hotels. A writer checked in to get a peek inside the world of the superwealthy.

Drug violence and government corruption have put the country’s journalists in peril. In one town, reporters tried to fight back.