If there were a writing recipe for Anna Bruno’s successful coming-of-age novel, Fine Young People (Algonquin Books, $29), it ...

As a novelist, I’m drawn to characters who are not famous, accomplished, or visible. And yet, two of the books I’ve written — ...

The Duquesne Club Ballroom hummed as 300 guests in tuxedos and floor-length gowns –families, friends, and past debutantes, ...

An inaugural weeklong Pittsburgh exhibition including the “StartUP PGH” innovation conference and the first-ever Pittsburgh ...

MARY FINGER, PRESIDENT, SETON HILL UNIVERSITY Seton Hill University’s namesake — Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton — was born as the colonies were on the brink of revolution, so the birth of our nation has ...

In his debut novel, City of Clans, University of Pittsburgh master of fine arts grad and former Point Park professor Geoff Peck uses Pittsburgh’s 2009 G-20 summit as a tonal backdrop for a millennial ...

We could just as well discuss the historical influence of Agatha Christie’s 1926 novel “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” as we could its mechanistic genius as a whodunnit. The British Crime Writer’s ...

TIM PARKS, CEO, LIFE’SWORK While the America of this moment, with its “mask” off, is a divisive, sometimes cruel and disheartening place, we must remember that this time is just one of many such ...

MATTHEW GEORGE, PNC PRIVATE BANK Markets are seeing more ups and downs following energy disruptions in the Middle East, but the overall picture remains solid. Higher energy costs could squeeze ...

I have always felt that the sentence most essential to democracy — and to free expression — is the 1906 quote, often attributed to Voltaire, but actually from the English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall: ...