Wallis Simpson

Legend has it that King Edward first made the acquaintance of Wallis Simpson at a Hotel del Coronado banquet in 1920. In keeping with such a romantic history, the hotel is offering a " 'Fall' in Love" couples escape that matches two nights'...

The Reserve By Russell Banks Harper, 287 pages, $24.95 In summer 1898, philosopher William James climbed Mt. Marcy, highest peak in the Adirondacks and a geographic locus of Russell Banks' new novel, "The Reserve." Writing to his wife of his trip in...

CAESAR salad — romaine, croutons, Parmesan, egg, anchovies, olive oil, lemon juice. Aficionados have always debated whether to include the anchovies, whether to serve the leaves whole or chopped and whether to coddle the egg — but what about...

Ann Harrison Ryder, information and referral coordinator for Howard County government, and Frances Mason, a retired society page writer, are two modern women with lives connected by a common thread. They both had ancestors who attended the Patapsco Female...

If Woody Allen were a painter, a lot of his movies could be classified as studies for works in progress. "Scoop" feels like a tentative doodle in the general direction of "Match Point," only chronologically reversed and more or less amusing. A murder...

THERE ONCE WAS a horse race on Long Island bigger than the Kentucky Derby. It happened in 1823 and one historian wrote that it ``symbolized the onset of modern sport.'' There once was an automobile race on Long Island that outranked -- in fact, predated...