“What singles Beard out from the mechanized army that clicks across Africa is the same thing that singled out Ahab from the average sea captain — a kind of madness.”

New Year's Day 50 years ago: "But in its monumental ugliness it commands that special morbid fascination that all New Yorkers feel toward their city, despise it as they may."

Making the most of summer’s waning days in Upper Manhattan

The republication of Val Wilmer’s “As Serious as Your Life” from 1977 resonates today