The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, ….

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read..

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city..

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful..

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century..