A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike ...

That journey began on Jan. 16, 1930, in a working-class immigrant household in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section. His parents had fled Galicia, bringing with them Yiddish and leftist sympathies — ...

“One of the longest journeys in the world is the journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan — or at least from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn to certain parts of Manhattan.” Norman Podhoretz wrote those ...

We must all be punished because the British state will not enforce its laws against the dangerous and destructive drug, marijuana. This punishment takes many forms, not least the stink of the ...

A Baltimore community walked on Sunday in memory of a 14-year-old who was shot and killed last month in the Morrell Park neighborhood. The walk started at 2:47 p.m., which was the same time Michael ...

It's all very well when America is as rich and powerful as it is to behave like this. But I think you'll find that the Chinese particularly are watching very carefully what we do, taking notes of what ...

Snobbery has been a terrible curse in this country. And if the toning down of accents helps to get rid of snobbery, then that is a good thing. But we might also be losing something important. There is ...

A 14-year-old boy died after a shooting in South Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, police said. Police responded around 3 p.m. to the 2500 block of Washington Boulevard in the Morrell Park neighborhood ...