Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Everything I love about America is fragile.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.