On April 26, I got a brief email from Marty McGuinn complimenting me on a remembrance column I’d written a few days earlier ...

Pittsburgh Quarterly has once again been recognized as the leading magazine in Western Pennsylvania journalism, winning eight Golden Quills in the 62nd annual Golden Quill Awards, sponsored by the ...

In his first nonfiction book, An Ignorance of Trees, touted as a “memoir in essays,” author Jim Daniels seeks to upend that ...

Historian and biographer David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential ...

Editor’s Note: This article is based on the upcoming book published by Lyons Press: “From Swampoodle to Mellon Bank CEO; An Irish American’s Journey, the Autobiography of Martin G. McGuinn Jr.” When I ...

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once said, “The only journey is the one within.” For people experiencing tough times (and the ...

We are often surprised by the little things we find when someone passes away, things we were perhaps not aware of, or things ...

Pittsburgh is known for many things, but some of its most significant legacies are largely unknown or underplayed. Among the ...

When life events overwhelm me — family health issues, major expenses, needless arguments — I dream about skiing. For me, there is no better escape than soaring down a slope with nothing on my mind ...

It’s a hell of a thing to know your birth coincides with a line of demarcation in your hometown. On one side is prosperity. On the other, ruin. I was born in Youngstown in 1977. At the time, it was an ...

Often when I walk through a gallery of contemporary art, I can hear a murmuring between the works that echoes journalist Herbert Morrison’s voice describing the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937: “Oh, ...

Everyone is born with a gift from God. Some people discover their gift, and use it to a positive end. Some discover their gift, but squander it. And others, for one reason or another, never discover ...