SOMETIME in the ’80s, I sat at a table in the town library in Lenox, Mass., doing my eighth-grade algebra homework. A man, probably about the age I am now, appeared in front of me. He wore a ...

The city of Neiman Marcus and Tiffany now has a library to match. Walnut Creek, long a hub of upscale shopping, today opens its long-awaited, new $40 million library, which is as elegant, clean and ...