Kairos

Hans, a 50-something novelist and high-minded writer for radio, is handsome and rangy, and he looks fine with a cigarette. Katharina doesn’t like to weep in front of him, so when she anguishes one evening …

Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Kairos,” a novel about a torrid love affair in the final years of East Germany, won on Tuesday the International Booker Prize, the renowned award for fiction translated …

Japan’s Space One Kairos rocket exploded after lift-off, leaving a plume of smoke, fire and fragments of machinery in its wake. ADVERTISEMENT A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the …