Nicholas Casey

The Sunday Read: ‘Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich’

Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich

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

The war in Gaza is one of the few conflicts most civilians can’t escape. But a small number of sick or critically injured people have been evacuated. The Times Magazine reporter Nicholas Casey went on a rare evacuation flight to try to understand what it takes to leave.

The war is nearly impossible to flee — except for a small number of sick and wounded who are offered a dramatic path to safety.

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

En ‘El último sueño’, el director español, maestro del cine enigmático, ofrece un vistazo a su complicada relación con la creatividad y la mortalidad.

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 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.

Some Palestinians said they were considering returning to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip as strikes intensified in the south.

La violencia del narcotráfico y la corrupción gubernamental han puesto en peligro a los periodistas del país. Los reporteros de una ciudad intentaron resistir.

Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.

For years, Spanish society has been rocked by revelations from the secret tapes of José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former intelligence agent now facing prison. He told me his story.

La sociedad española se ha visto sacudida durante años por la filtración de audios secretos de José Manuel Villarejo, otrora agente de inteligencia. Esta es la historia que me contó.

Jo Farb Hernández, a Californian art historian and curator, has spent 23 years trying to get recognition for a group of self-taught builders. Call them “outsider architects.”