In retrospect, it might be recognized as a troubling harbinger that, ten years ago, no consensus could be reached in this countr... Read and comment | Read original article

Liv Ullmann—actor, director, muse—has been in town for her production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” at ... Read and comment | Read original article

Justo Algaba, one of the world’s most respected matador tailors, was in town the other day from Madrid, where he has a two... Read and comment | Read original article

Reforming America’s health-insurance system was never going to be an easy task, given people’s natural aversion to c... Read and comment | Read original article

There are a number of phrases that are typically used to identify Victor Pinchuk, who flew into town last week to attend a party... Read and comment | Read original article

For some years in the nineteen-fifties, Christopher Plummer lived in the Algonquin Hotel, on West Forty-fourth Street. One morni... Read and comment | Read original article

A recent issue of Forbes features a full-page ad for the consulting firm Accenture with Tiger Woods striding through tall grass.... Read and comment | Read original article

Thorbjørn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in presenting the Peace Prize to Barack Obama last week, ... Read and comment | Read original article