The Wall Street Journal's June Fletcher's piece in Feb. 21 editions tracks the development of ersatz loft buildings in places like Reston, Va. Coming to a subdivision near you: the McLoft. Amid ranch houses and McMansions, developers are putting up buildings that look like they're out of downtown Manhattan or Chicago. Unlike urban lofts, Read More
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism , by John F. Stacks. Little, Brown, 384 pages, $29.95.
There was a time, not too long ago, when no one would have dared to write a book about Scotty Reston-and then, once it was written, everyone would have run out and bought it. Read MoreBill Buford, The New Yorker 's fiction editor since 1994, will be leaving his post to become the magazine's European correspondent. His last issue editing fiction will be the magazine's Christmas issue, and he will start as a staff writer in January.
"In a way, it's going from the best editing job in town to the Read More