An adventurous young foodie investigates a new Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side.

The city levied a $500 fine against a librarian at Brooklyn Technical High School after he promoted his daughter’s book in the library and a newsletter.

The writer Calvin Trillin’s gastronomic walking excursion, which took place as part of the New Yorker Festival, is called “Come Hungry” with good reason.

Mr. Tytell’s knowledge of typewriters was a boon to American spies during World War II, a tool for the defense lawyers for Alger Hiss, and a necessity for literary luminaries.

For seven years, a “Harry Potter” fanatic worked on a guidebook to J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series, but in the end, his book was too close to the work he admired.

For seven years, a “Harry Potter” fanatic worked on a guidebook to J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series, but in the end, his book was too close to the work he admired.

Wickham Boyle, a writer and mother of two from New York, has turned her essays on Sept. 11 into an opera, of which she is the librettist, director and co-producer.

Elena Climent’s large trompe-l’oeil mural in New York University’s Languages and Literature building depicts works and work places of six writers, using authentic details.

Mr. Shernoff was a psychotherapist who beginning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic wrote widely on its emotional toll on gay men.

A judge dismissed a suit by a former New York Post gossip writer who accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton, The Daily News and others of conspiring to ruin his reputation.