I thought of William Safire as the great irrelevancy, a blank spot on the New York Times op-ed page, and rendering valuable real estate in the Sunday magazine, a whole page every week, more skippable than the full-page ads for luxury apartments. ...
Anna Shapiro: Greed, speculation, bust, misery ... our present economic woes are right there, along with all human life, in Charles ...
A man of 30, living in an unprosperous area of South London, receives a whopping settlement of £8.5 million for an accident that left in him a coma for weeks, followed by months more in casts. Because of brain damage, he’s had to relearn to walk and to ...
Alice Munro (b. 1931) is the author of 11 collections of stories and one novel. The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside ...
This is a book about age and regret. Since it’s by Nora Ephron, it’s funny. A funny book about loss is a puzzle, and it’s that puzzle that I, if not the author, tussle with in reading this delightful, maddening collection of personal essays whose ...
Triangle , by Katharine Weber. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 242 pages, $23. Katharine Weber puts her stories together like piecework, like the work done by the two sisters in Triangle , one a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist ...
This collection of 20 recent essays by Cynthia Ozick begins with a memorial appreciation of Susan Sontag. It’s noble and notable that Ms. Ozick should appreciate Sontag, a vanquishing rival for literary reputation and, equally to the point, a ...
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