Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the most famous non-fiction books written by an American author. When I wrote the following pages, or rather his life from the reading of a book. Henry ...

To borrow from Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront," they all coulda been contenders for the Oscar in a film in which one of ...

The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored.

The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored. All around it are thriving chain stores attracting steady streams of ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs ...