Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance,” the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly ...

“T he art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Aristippus, “and the keenest ...

Editor’s Note: After training as a chemical engineer, JAMES HURST switched directions and studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music and in Rome. After a brief and unsuccessful fling at an ...