The baby boom generation has accumulated tons of stuff. Some have lived through such major events as the 1950s, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War, prompting them to ...

If you go visit my mother, you will leave feeling as if you have just left the classiest bed and breakfast in the world. She has old-school manners, and it shows by what she chooses to keep in her ...

John McPhee, who turned 92 in March, would like to keep at it for a while — the writing, and the breathing. In his lively new collection, “Tabula Rasa,” the very longtime, very long-form journalist ...