By Dave Andrusko The email consisted of just one sentence, eleven words long: “dave, this is such a good story, I am sharing it.” As it happens she was referring to the story we ran Tuesday about a five-year-old girl who successfully went through in utero surgery to...

By Dave Andrusko Each year New York Times columnist David Brooks selects what he believes are the best magazine essays of the year. Like many people, I try to read as many as possible, having learned that his choices are almost always excellent. No, I’m not going to...