I can’t help but worry Stewart’s movie project is a harbinger. I suspect we’re being primed for succession.

Memorials owe their meaning and their random beauty to the efforts of a community of neighbors — and strangers.

SJP, she who made Monolo Blahnik a household name, blames inexpensive high heels for her podiatric woes. Anita Diamant isn’t buying it.

For better or worse, wind power is changing our natural landscape. Not everyone is pleased. But Anita Diamant suspects most people will come around.

A look at the history of inaugural poems and the surprising vitality of contemporary American poetry.

Jane Austen takes for granted that her female characters are human beings — no more and no less than their male counterparts. What’s more “feminist” than that?