“Way to go!” That was how the writer and critic Lee Siegel greeted the news that, come September, The New York Times will be dissolving its Saturday Arts & Ideas section and incorporating “ideas” stories into the rest of the paper.
Mr. Siegel is not alone in feeling vindicated by the section’s imminent demise. Since Read More
The sun was shining on the morning of April 20 as about 30 striking Columbia graduate students drank coffee and ate bagels behind a blue police barricade outside the main campus gate on 116th Street and Broadway.
It was the second day of their strike. Some of the university’s regular faculty had moved their classes Read More
It was only a small headline, buried deep in the Metro section of The New York Times on April 8-”Minister Says Breslin Falsified Interview About Homosexuals”-but as a sign of the newest chapter in the history of American journalism, it might as well have been a front-page splash.
The minister was the Reverend Louis Sheldon Read More
On the afternoon of Monday, March 29, the man who convinced Richard Clarke to set pen to paper walked into a dark restaurant on the Upper East Side. “It has kind of a Mafia feel,” Len Sherman said cheerily as he took off his sunglasses and settled into a quiet booth.
Tanned, tieless and laid-back Read More
“I’m very moderate by nature,” Sam Tanenhaus said by telephone from his home in Westchester, two days after The New York Times announced that he would be the next editor of its Book Review . “People with extreme views interest me, dramatically and narratively.”
The author of a very well-received 1997 biography of the journalist Read More
As the Whitney Biennial launches this week to the usual hyperbolic chorus of yays and nays, behind the scenes at the museum, a major change is happening. There was a new face at the Whitney’s board meeting last week. A new familiar face: Peter Norton, the software magnate, contemporary-art collector and accomplished board hopper, who Read More
Things are getting a little less polite in the ongoing labor dispute between Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal , Barron’s and Dow Jones Newswires, and its employees’ union, IAPE 1096.
While it’s hardly looking like Last Exit to Brooklyn down at the company’s lower Manhattan headquarters, newsroom grumbling about salary Read More
Naomi Wolf was on the phone on Feb. 24 speaking about her cover story in this week’s New York , in which she accuses literary scholar Harold Bloom of having placed his “heavy, boneless hand” on her inner thigh when she was an undergraduate student in 1983. In it, she also depicted Yale University as Read More
To get a sense of how The New York Times plans to overhaul its Book Review , just consider the candidates to succeed Charles (Chip) McGrath as the section’s next editor. All have strong nonfiction or current-affairs backgrounds-in line with the newsier direction The Times ‘ top editors say they want to take the section Read More
DENBY: ‘IT’S DISASTROUS’
Surreal Season of Discontent As Highbrows Take Hit
This winter has been even gloomier than usual for the city’s intellectual class. Let’s start with the travails of the rising generation: the almost comically grim saga of the 27 Lingua Franca freelancers who are being sued for money they were paid Read More
