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The story of the United States Open is best told through the objects associated with the event -- a staggering number of them are now housed at the International Tennis [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn the city that hosts the United States Open, playing the sport on a regular basis can feel like an administrative and logistical boondoggle for tennis-loving New Yorkers like [...]

On an early morning last June, I hit the streets of Lyme Regis dressed in a borrowed pair of Wellington boots and an anorak, hood cinched around my face against [...]

LONDON -- When James Hyman was a scriptwriter at MTV Europe, in the 1990s, before the rise of the internet, there was a practical -- as well as compulsive -- [...]

Byline: DAVID SHAFTEL LONDON -- When James Hyman was a scriptwriter at MTV Europe, in the 1990s, before the rise of the internet, there was a practical -- as well [...]

Rates From $125. Basics Just steps from the Stone Pony, the storied beachside rock club that helped launch the career of Bruce Springsteen, is The Asbury, the town's first new [...]

Every time my anxiety about travel seems to have subsided, new horrific and deadly terrorist attacks in Britain, like the one at London Bridge on June 3, close to where [...]

Byline: DAVID SHAFTEL Every time my anxiety about travel seems to have subsided, new horrific and deadly terrorist attacks in Britain, like the one at London Bridge on June 3, [...]

A four-mile stretch of New Jersey's Oak Tree Road is known as a destination for Indian restaurants, groceries and sweets shops. But amid the 70-odd Indian restaurants in the area, [...]

Traveling from Athens to Crete in 1939, Henry Miller, the author of bawdy novels, many of them banned in America, flew in an airplane for the first time -- an [...]

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- On a steamy March day, Jerry Seinfeld stood before a group of men, most of them in polo shirts and loafers, in a muggy tent here [...]

Buried beneath the breadth of Britain lies a legacy of the Cold War that was once a closely guarded secret but is now simply forgotten. Because of its proximity to [...]

Rates Rooms start at ú149, or $223 at $1.50 to the pound. Basics Nestled in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, the Pig Near Bath is situated amid a West Country [...]

Generally, I feel pretty confident with a racket in my hand. I've been playing tennis for most of my life and can hold my own with accomplished players. I'm able [...]

Byline: DAVID SHAFTEL Novak Djokovic has spent most of the last four years as the world's No. 1 ranked tennis player, but he is not necessarily the people's champion. Having [...]

Novak Djokovic has spent most of the last four years as the world's No. 1 ranked tennis player, but he is not necessarily the people's champion. Having finally overtaken the [...]

It was in Lulwind Cove, an inlet on England's south coast, that the dastardly Sergeant Troy took an impromptu swim in ''Far From the Madding Crowd,'' Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel [...]

Los Angeles -- When Ben Vasquez bought his 1975 Chevrolet G10 van, its mural of an eagle soaring over a desert landscape was faded, and its plush interior, intended for [...]

With hundreds of Indian restaurants in New York City, one would think finding authentic food, or desi khana, would be easy. But many still hark back to the wave of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDALLENTOWN, PA. -- Keith Flickinger likes to say that he grew up in the Allentown of the 1982 Billy Joel song, the one where all the factories were closing [...]

It's over. I'm through with brunch. It's gone way too far. Saturday and Sunday mornings in New York's West Village, where I have lived for nearly 20 years, used to [...]

Byline: DAVID SHAFTEL ALLENTOWN, PA. -- Keith Flickinger likes to say that he grew up in the Allentown of the 1982 Billy Joel song, the one where all the factories [...]

The Isle of Thanet, a thumb of land protruding from the Kent Coast in England, has always been a draw for creative types. T. S. Eliot wrote there, referencing ''Margate [...]

Byline: DAVID SHAFTEL The Isle of Thanet, a thumb of land protruding from the Kent Coast in England, has always been a draw for creative types. T.S. Eliot wrote there, [...]

Machines that insinuate themselves into their surroundings, quietly monitoring your behavior, may be worrying, but as far as I'm concerned, those that bombard you with reminders of their presence are [...]

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, ENGLAND -- Visitors to Shakespeare County Raceway during the annual Yanks Weekend could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a regular Sunday meet at a typical American [...]

MUMBAI -- It's not easy being the owner of an exceedingly expensive car in India. Just ask Rishabh Jain, whose Lamborghini Murcilago LP640, in a shade of metallic gray called [...]

MUMBAI, India ON a recent evening on Marine Drive here, Amrit Jaiswal, clad in an all-white taxi driver's uniform, sat in his weathered black-and-yellow Premier Padmini cab waiting for rush [...]

LAST year, when my girlfriend accepted a job in Mumbai, we had to find an apartment on short notice, a daunting task in that city's drastically oversubscribed housing market. But [...]

In his fascinating Fordlandia , Greg Grandin recounts the story of automotive titan Henry Ford's failed Amazonian city. Besides being a source of cheap rubber, Fordlandia - the Brazilian jungle [...]

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R Crumb WW Norton & Co, 2009 Cover by R Crumb In his illustrated version of The Book of Genesis , the underground comic [...]

Grass, clay and hard courts call for different skills, as David Shaftel learns at the hands of a Grand Slam player I first played on a grass tennis court at [...]

Simon Axler, the hero of Philip Roth's latest short novel The Humbling, is 'the last of the best of the classical American stage actors'. After a string of disastrous performances, [...]

Columbine by Dave Cullen Cover Design by Henry Yee Twelve, 2009 Journalist Dave Cullen's masterful retelling of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, Colorado, is the latest addition to [...]