This piece is drawn from the introduction to a new edition of ''Giovanni's Room,'' by James Baldwin, which is out from Everyman's Library, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Group, on March 1st. Read Edwidge Danticat on ''Go Tell It on the Mountain.''.
The new bar and restaurant at 215 E. Third St. takes over 7,200 square feet of the former Dilley Manufacturing Co. in the East Village with room for 331 guests. Full Court Press, the owners of formidable beer havens El Bait Shop, The Royal Mile and
A look of recognition shot across the face of one elementary school student at Spencer Elementary School on Friday afternoon. It wasn't that he recognized Russell Westbrook, Thunder point guard and five-time All-Star, as he walked in the room. Instead
A look of recognition shot across the face of one elementary school student at Spencer Elementary School on Friday afternoon. It wasn't that he recognized Russell Westbrook, Thunder point guard and five-time All-Star, as he walked in the room. Instead
I spend my day in this room; I am here much of the night. I sit with my back to most of this room and with the blinds to the street closed when the weather turns. It's enough just to know there are windows. James Fenton and I have been here six years