Taking shelter in the Strand, an encounter with a very tall man and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: My wife and I were walking back to our West ...

The children’s book illustrator grounds his work in a Cincinnati and Midwest aesthetic that authors from Barack Obama to Madonna to Amanda Gorman love being associated with. If you walk into a ...

A young man sitting at the desk with a tall stack of books listining to music on his phone looking lost in his music. Everyone’s guilty of procrastinating sometimes—even the ancient Greeks and Romans ...

When Karen Smith took her oath as the new president of the Central Bucks County, Pa., school board, she opted to forgo the Bible her colleagues used—instead placing her hand on a stack of contested ...