In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed bookstore shelves, fiction was a boys club. Today, the situation has changed.

In her new short story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld examines the anxieties of women in middle age.

The walls of Avignon, France, draped with a banner in French meaning “Rape is rape.” The Pelicot trial was occurring in the modern courthouse just across the road.

Loading sugar cane to transport it to mills in the Satara district of India’s Maharashtra State in March last year. Laborers often work in couples, paid through contractors.

Mariama, a pregnant child bride, in Koidu, Sierra Leone, in 2020. She had married a 28-year-old man that year.

Vinod Kumar, center, mourning over the bodies of his wife and daughter, who died in Tuesday’s stampede.

Packaging the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol for mailing to patients.

At age 20, Kristin Smith’s mother arranged for her to have a tubal ligation.

At a glittering party in New York attendees watch a scene from a 12-minute trailer for “The Victoria’s Secret World Tour,” the next iteration of the brand’s famous show.