When it comes to budget problems, the story never changes in New York. While revenues are rolling...
Read OnOn Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist,...
Read OnRegents examinations in New York are a time honored measure of both competency and success....
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Gitmo. Yellowcake. WMDs. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Ahmed Chalabi. American phone records. The invasion...
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Want to know what’s in store for neighborhoods near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, now that federal eco-crats have dropped a giant tarp over the gunky waterway? Ask the folks trying to get something built at Ground Zero.
Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg want to tax soda to fight obesity and, more notably, help plug the state’s $9 billion gap. But here’s a better way to raise cash: tax lies.
In the race to replace Gov. Paterson ap pointee Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's (uber-) junior US senator, new names seem to surface daily. The latest: former state banking superintendent Diana Taylor, who happens to be Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend.
NASA is looking for new homes for three soon-to-be-decommissioned space shuttles. It would be crazy not to put one in New York.
State lawmakers, take note: Budgets can be balanced without raising taxes or borrowing billions.
Where will it end (“ ‘Human Cheese’ Ma: Don’t Have a Cow!” March 10)?
Ralph Peters rightly notes the obvious American discomfort at acknowledging radical Islam’s history of spilling civilian blood (“You Can’t Win Hearts, Minds of Radical Islam,” PostScript, March 7).
Dreams in a Time of War A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Pantheon) Seventy-two-year-old Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o endured much to have his voice heard. Now teaching...
In the final season of “Diff’rent Strokes,” in 1986, Todd Bridges was pulling in $30,000 a week for being on the receiving end of Gary Coleman’s insistent “Whatchu talkin’ bout,...
The devil is back. Almost 40 years after William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” terrified its first generation of fans, his new novel “Dimiter” explores another hell:...
Libraries are a girl’s best friend. At least they can be if, like Suzan-Lori Parks, you ever needed a peaceful retreat. “My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and...
The Heights by Peter Hedges (Dutton) The author of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “An Ocean in Iowa” takes aim at strollerfied Brooklyn Heights this time out. Tim Welch is a...
When witnessing an awe-inspiring talent, whether it comes from sports, music or literature, most people just chalk it up to natural-born gifts. While discussing arguably the...
“The Big Short” could be described as the ultimate love letter to the oddballs on the fringes of the stock and bond market who “told us so” back in 2007 when they predicted the...
The first time Tony Ciminera, vice president of Yugo America, actually drove a Yugo, it almost killed him. The steering went out and he stopped just short of plowing into a tree...
“I wish I were a more promiscuous reader,” confesses John Lithgow, whose obvious intelligence (Harvard, Class of ’67) informs his every role, be it the cunning killer of “Dexter”...
Early on in Carol Goodman’s new novel, we learn that “Arcadia was a place in Greece where life was supposed to be perfect.” You can almost hear the ominous music swelling, tipping...
“There’s a tear in every word,” is how longtime record producer Billy Sherrill described Tammy Wynette’s singing. The legendary country star had 17 No. 1 hits, including “Stand By...
The Game From Where I Stand A Ballplayer’s Inside View by Doug Glanville (Henry Holt, May) It’s no surprise that former big league outfielder Doug Glanville (Phillies, Cubs,...
For more than 20 years, William S. Lerach was the most feared lawyer in America. He and his former firm, Milberg Weiss, were Jedi masters of security law, targeting Fortune 500...
Elizabeth Bard is in love — with flaky croissants, hidden bistros and the French concept of le cinq a sept (“the 5 to 7”), “that hard-to-account-for time after work when lovers...
“I don’t like to be bored, ever,” says Judy Collins, who is as discerning about the books she reads as she is about the ballads she sings. Which is why you’ll find her reading...
After a 2006 game between the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox, a clandestine meeting took place in the rear laundry room of Minnesota's Metrodome between the managers of...
“The Autobiography of an Execution” is a “memoir” by a Houston death-row lawyer, David Dow, whose mission it is to disgust us with what he knows about capital punishment in Texas...
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other Press) Consider yourself warned: This has nothing to do with those popular American Girl dolls. It’s a murder mystery that opens in...
“I could not have my mother come to my funeral. A year later, that is the best explanation I can give.” So begins Nick Schuyler’s harrowing tale of how he survived more than 40...
When “Saturday Night Fever” — set around a real-life Bay Ridge discothèque — premiered in December 1977, the movie grossed $200 million and sparked the nationwide disco craze. The...
“I was a nerd in a complicated family, and poetry saved my life,” says Mary Karr. Those who’ve read her harrowing memoirs may think she’s being awfully generous about the...
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend — but they’re a thief’s, too. Their small size, their liquidity, their extreme value and their virtual untraceability make them the ultimate...
Adam Haslett’s debut novel — his last story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here” was nominated for a Pulitzer — is a prescient dramatization of what happens when the legalized...
In “The Whale,” winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, Philip Hoare, like Ishmael before him, sets out on his passionate search for knowledge about the...
Decades before he became America’s poet laureate, Robert Pinsky was seriously into sax. Only later, in his early 20s, the guy voted “most musical boy” in high school realized he...
Moonfixer The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd by Earl Lloyd and Sean Kirst (Syracuse University Press) Lloyd is a trailblazing figure, often overlooked for his contribution to...
It’s become the biggest cliché in the book world — an exposé on the item that “changed the world.” Looking for 12 Greeks who changed the world? There’s a book for that. Molecules?...
Given her background — her dad was Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser, her mom’s a sculptor — you’d hardly expect Mika Brzezinski’s reading to run to, say, Jackie...
The price consultant, a now-common position among retailers, advises stores on how to persuade consumers to spend more but get less. Their stock in trade is psychological...
Do you know your tissue rights? Most likely, you’ve never even heard the term. But the little-known story of Henrietta Lacks, chronicled by science journalist Rebecca Skloot, may...
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