A swap on the subway in the Bronx, a nightly ritual in Chelsea and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

This month, the 57th edition of the Los Angeles-Orange County Thomas Guide is being published. The thick, rectangular, spiral-bound road atlas is the stuff of memories for many Southern Californians ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

When’s the last time you prepared a truly healthy meal for yourself or your family? Perhaps it was last night, but now you’re out of ideas for an encore performance. Or maybe it’s been ages and you’re ...

But she is so earnestly excited by her subject that even a skeptical reader is bound to feel a swell of enthusiasm as she makes her full-throated case for a life of the mind. She wants her book to ...

Airey quit her job in London and moved to West Cork – from where her grandmother hails – to write the book. It's not the only exciting debut to come out of Ireland this year. The golden age of ...