By Fay Weldon 5/31/99 12:00am

A 9-Inch Book on a Big Topic, Unillustrated, Alas

The Book of the Penis , by Maggie Paley. Grove-Atlantic, 242 pages, $20.

Maggie Paley has taken the source of human greatness, power and passion, our capacity for nobility and forbearance, our sense of beauty, our capacity for art, our longing for the poetic, our connection with the infinite, the inspiration for voyages to the Read More

By Matt Fleischer 4/05/99 12:00am

Beaten, Abused, Arrested? City Lawyer Pays for Brutality

Gail Donoghue knows brutality. In an office on Church Street, not far from where the Rev. Al Sharpton has been marshaling demonstrators every day against Mayor Giuliani and his Police Department, Ms. Donoghue reads lawsuits filed by citizens who have had the misfortune to be bumped, belittled, bashed or blasted by a police officer. Then, Read More