The American Revolution wasn’t a moment in time so much as a gradual drip, drip, drip, a series of events, grievances, provocations and confrontations that unspooled over a period of several years ...

Editor at Large With our foamy little coffees, Stacy Schiff and I have set up at a small round metal table under the trees of Bryant Park, the great green oasis that shares a block of midtown ...

Maybe it's the company I keep. Over the past few weeks, when I've told friends and neighbors that I've been reading a superb new biography of Samuel Adams, almost everyone has responded by saying ...

After winning a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov in 2000, Stacy Schiff continues to showcase her command of the genre, thoroughly researching her books and breathing new life into ...