In a new book, the “Seinfeld” and “S.N.L.” writer shares the secrets to the perfect toast: don’t drink too much, and, ...

After a military career that included helping take out bin Laden, Admiral William McRaven has assembled a new squad: Caring ...

The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big ...

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

One of the things that I’ve always loved about living in New York is that I don’t need to own a car,” R. Kikuo Johnson, the ...

In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world. Jessica Palud’s portrait ...

Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, ...

Updating Strunk and White. Link two thoughts with a semicolon, as in: He’s not even the real President; the other, even ...

The late author’s “Wolf Hall” trilogy, Barrett writes, uses details from Thomas Cromwell’s life as “nucleation sites around ...

In an old Georgia mansion, a team of the writer’s devotees found a dusty wooden box: inside were two dozen of her never-seen ...

The saxophonist and jazz poet (real name Angus Fairbairn) hit the jujitsu mat at a Wall Street dojo. The invitation read, ...