James Gandolfini changed the kind of characters who could anchor major TV dramas—but those characters overwhelmingly still must be men.

An American philosopher who writes as skillfully as he talks, IRWIN EDMAN has been teaching at Columbia University for thirty years. To his books (Philosopher’s Holiday and Philosopher’s Quest), as to his lectures and table talk, he brings the wise detachment of a bachelor, the urbanity of a sensitive New Yorker, and the penetration of a disciple of George Santayana and John Dewey.

Men are beginning to rediscover the allure of clutching to a smoking pipe, and they're doing it this time without any of the health hazards

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