Ian Scheffler juxtaposes Donald E. Canfield’s Oxygen with Bill McKibben’s Oil and Honey to explain the forever mutability of nature....

ON NOVEMBER 16, 1959, Steve Allen began his eponymous show at the piano. Wearing a gunmetal suit and dark glasses, he played a zippy right-hand riff before turning to face the camera. Snapping to the beat of an off-stage snare, Allen ...

ONE NIGHT IN 1957, Joyce Johnson was handed the phone in the kitchen of a friend’s Yorkville tenement. “Hello. I’m Jack. Allen tells me you’re very nice. Would you like to come down to ...