You’ll encounter many strange strangers on your adventure in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and almost all of them have something they need you to track down. The same is true of the Deserter, a ...

Verifying the detailed stories of subjects who must remain anonymous requires a particularly rigorous approach to the process. Credit...Elinor Carucci for The New York Times Supported by By Sarah A.

In “The Deserter,” the journalist Sarah A. Topol reports the story of Ivan, a deserter who served as a captain in the Russian Army, fought in Ukraine and then ultimately fled the war and his country ...