If you can trust the word of a publisher in promotion mode, then Living History is making money: Simon & Schuster reported on Tuesday, June 10, that 200,000 Americans had celebrated the first two days of publication of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir by paying $28 and taking it home. Here at The Observer (which Senator Read More
It was lunch time at Nice Matin on Amsterdam Avenue-a little slice of Great Neck plopped down on the Upper West Side, with pairs of middle-aged women comparing notes on their blow-outs while stay-at-home moms in Theory trousers walk toddlers in fancy sweaters up and down the aisles-and Davitt Sigerson was explaining why Trish, a Read More
Once the English language’s most shocking, egregious, off-limits word, it’s become just another cultural noise, thrown around with the casualness of a summer softball, appearing on your TV, on your answering machine, at a newsstand near you, from the mouth of your son, your mom, your Congressman, your philosophy professor, your dentist, your waiter, your Read More
If you can trust the word of a publisher in promotion-mode, then Living History is making money: Simon & Schuster reported on Tuesday, June 10, that 200,000 Americans had celebrated the first two days of publication of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir by paying $28 and taking it home. Here at The Observer (which Senator Clinton Read More
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men , by Andrew Hacker. Scribner, 199 pages, $25.
Into a culture jammed with strenuously creative strategies for marrying off its unwed citizens-from Married By America to the Defense of Marriage Act-comes the political scientist Andrew Hacker to shut down the party with Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Read More
Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 & the Passengers & Crew Who Fought Back , by Jere Longman. HarperCollins, 288 pages, $24.95.
We all find our own ways into tragedy. In the weeks after 9/11, I heard a lot of “Have you been down there yet?” I hadn’t. But every morning on my way to Read More
