Sheila Johnson, in Command of the Third Chapter

Town & Country has turned its attention to Sheila Johnson and finds her well into a third act, and running it with real mastery. The phrase deserves a reader's attention. A third act is the part of a life that comes after the first success and after the reinvention, and few people get to play it with this much assurance. On the North End, where people tend to measure a life by how well its later chapters are lived, that is the kind of achievement worth raising a glass to in the middle of the season.

With reporting from Town & Country.