Columbia magazine

Paul Auster opens up about his life and work: Academics theorize endlessly about Auster and his literary motivations, labeling him everything from a New York Jewish hunger artist to a clever semiotician whose every decision — down to the color of the notebook his protagonists choose to write in — is fraught with symbolism. Auster […]

How a second-generation Chinese daughter of two doctors in Birmingham, Mich., became one of New York City’s finest chefs: Wanting to expand her culinary outlook to include more Eastern flavors, Lo moved to a French-Vietnamese restaurant, Can, where she met Scism, who was working as a grill cook. But it was when Lo took the […]