"Everybody writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it," Sohini says. And, so, from afar, she began to read her way into New York. Years later, Sohini broke away ...

"Everybody writes about New York with so much tenderness ... a good slice of the essential New York City literary canon: from Ann Petry to Fran Lebowitz; E.B. White to Dylan Thomas; Colson ...

Mr. Rhodes is a contributing Opinion writer. He served as a deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama. In 1962, not long after President John Kennedy created U.S.A.I.D., the ...