It’s wrong, I know,
to pray for a baseball team to win. It’s selfish, too, given all that
the Yankees have attained, all the attention and riches and praise they’ve
gotten these last few years, for themselves, the franchise, the fans. Lou
Piniella deserves to win one year. I’m awed by the Curt Schilling–Randy Johnson Read More
So, where’s Joel
Stein? Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Stein-the yuk-yuk guy at Time magazine whose column once rotated
with Margaret Carlson and Calvin Trillin-has been like a stand-up comic without
a microphone. Though he’s been sent on various assignments, Mr. Stein’s regular
wisecrack-filled column-along with most of the front-of-the-book Notebook
section-has been Read More
The only New Yorkers who will remember the 2000-1 school year with any fondness will be the graduates who finally, blessedly, put the city school system behind them and go on to happier things. Even the City University of New York is looking better these days, as the public schools finish a year marked by Read More
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued , by Ann Crittenden. Metropolitan Books, 323 pages, $25.
I disappeared three mommies the other day. Bouncing up to a group of my friends, I announced cheerily, “I have a job for you.”
“Don’t look at me,” Read More
They were driving across the East Side, deep in conversation
as they inched their way to the 66th Street transverse. The sun roof was open,
but my husband and his partner were talking business, and they weren’t paying
much attention. Then they heard the hoots coming from above.
“Nice car!” “Cool!” “All right!” It Read More
Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani , by Wayne Barrett, assisted by Adam Fifield. Basic Books, 498 pages, $26.
Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City , by Andrew Kirtzman. William Morrow, 333 pages, $25.
Two years ago, at Thanksgiving dinner, someone suggested we go around the table and share what we were grateful Read More
Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted , by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer. Doubleday, 298 pages, $24.95.
Opinion polls reveal a great American contradiction: On the one hand, Americans show widespread disdain for lawyers, politicians and the press; on the other hand, they wholeheartedly support the Read More
I’m Not Done Yet! Keeping at It, Remaining Relevant, and Having the Time of My Life , by Edward I. Koch, with Daniel Paisner. William Morrow & Company, 196 pages, $23.
Back in the old days-back before City Hall Park was surrounded by an iron fence, back when average New Yorkers were allowed to congregate Read More
