Armies, like writers, prey on orphans and misfits. Scenes of navy recruitment have been a literary staple a minimum of since Bulgarian troopers kidnapped Voltaire’s Candide, however few are extra blea ...

Is Paul Newman’s memoir, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” (Knopf), actually Paul Newman’s memoir? As finest I can piece collectively the story, in 1986, the yr he turned sixty-one, Newman s ...

The different evening in Chinatown, as I made my method down the Bowery, I used to be instantly enveloped by a pack of lovely twentysomething ladies, galloping round me like wild horses. My chest tigh ...

The different night time, as I paid my invoice at Dunya Kabab House, a brand new Afghani restaurant in Kensington, in Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan, the younger proprietor, Mohamed Ghiasi, sized me up. “ ...