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 ...

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

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 ...

Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about Lillian Ross’s Profile of Ernest Hemingway and Burkhard Bilger’s article about high-school marching bands.

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

A Memoir of Romance and Divorce ,” Mlotek writes that her experience “hadn’t defined my feelings, but it had changed the ...

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

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using ...

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, ...