The complete online text of Old News by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...

Neighbors have noticed some peculiar noises coming from inside the ancient Hotel Riverview in Greenwich Village. Could it be the shrieking ghosts of the sunken Titanic, whose lost souls are rumored to haunt the former seaman’s flophouse—or, is it just the clamor of illegal construction?...

Rules enacted after the 9/11 attacks are forcing fliers to check more bags into the cargo holds of planes rather than carry them onboard. As more bags get checked, more items are bound to get lost. In January, U.S. airlines reported 8.2 mishandled bags per...

“This is the only little piece left of what downtown used to look like,” said Robert Kremer, proprietor of the Pussycat Lounge, the 34-year-old topless bar-cum–rock concert club in Manhattan’s financial district. The longtime flesh-peddler, who’s become a historic-preservation activist, was standing outside his bar...

Soho! Just kidding. Weeks ago we mathematically disproved the assertion that "The Garment District is the new Soho," though the Post apparently plugged its ears. So what does its cover story report to back up the age-old Garment claim? Only that the the neighborhood...