EditorialAmerican soldiers guard an entrance to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Sixteenth night: The daughter-in-law returns from her misadventure, feigning insanity, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialA TALE OF THE SEA: 'TIS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY ANY GOOD, FOR THE MISADVENTURE GIVES THREE MEN A CHANCE OF SHOWING THEIR VALOUR, 1890 engraving.