These pages recently carried a lament for the little French restaurant, and the loss from the cities they once graced…

Traveling to Normandy fourteen years ago, we encountered a rare guide. He was a middle-aged Frenchman native to the neighborhood.…

We live in times generally unfriendly to ritual, religious or civic. For fifty years now, at least, churches have stripped…

We live in the age of takeaway-everything, a phenomenon amplified since the late, great plague by another barbarism: the drive-thru.…