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In his short satirical tale “Zadig,” Voltaire describes the fictitious great lord Irax as “not bad at bottom but … corrupted by vanity and v...

One of the pleasures of working at New York magazine in the 1970s (and there were many) was the annual Christmas party, held in the editor...

Teaching the first grade this week, I was reunited with the kindergartners I had tried to instruct a year ago during a time when their regul...

In this the holiest week on the calendar for many faiths that believe in the resurrection, I thought of a friend who passed away this y...

Uncovered from the two-week-deep miasma of fetid Super Bowl coverage was the scrap of promotional news of the reunion this weekend between ...