Reader tales from the city. Illustrated by Agnes Lee. A spring walk near Prospect Park, an S. Klein bargain and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. A Manhattan ...

Marjorie Welish’s poetry, like Thelonious Monk’s music, is a montage of moving parts in which you’d be wise to expect the unexpected. It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that ...