Our youthful obsessions, how hard it is to shed them! For much of my childhood and adolescence, and well into adulthood, I followed Major L...

Ann Patchett (www.annpatchett.com) The fallout from the Pulitzer Foundation 's failure to award a fiction prize continues. The New ...

Albert Pujols, at potentially his final game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, September 25, 2011 (Ed Szczepanski/Getty) I'll keep ...

Suzy Allman for The New York Times Only a month ago New York Yankees shortstop, captain and longtime star Derek Jeter was maintaining ...

I hate to start on a down note, but today 400,000 Americans will lose their unemployment insurance , because members of the Senate GOP--fir...

It's been a week since I dropped in here, and every J's Theater reader knows the political business that's occurred since then,...

I haven't posted anything on the baseball playoffs since they began nearly a month ago. In part my silence results from the swift and ig...

A couple weeks ago I did something I haven't done in a while: I watched a live classical music concert on TV. The occasion was the PBS ...