My
Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was
Falsely Accused of Being a Spy , by Wen Ho Lee, with Helen Zia. Hyperion,
332 pages, $23.95.
The title of this gripping memoir of one scientist’s battle with the system gone awry-which included a torturous
nine months in solitary Read More
Yue-Sai Kan, the most famous woman in China, was sitting in her office in her enormous, opulent townhouse on Sutton Square on Manhattan’s East Side. I had been gazing longingly out the window at the huge backyard she shares with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, architect I.M. Pei, singer Robert Goulet and eight others. Read More
François Ozon’s Under
the Sand , from a screenplay by Mr. Ozon with the collaboration of Emmanuèle
Bernheim, Marina de Van and Marcia Romano, is about as good as it gets in the
current crapshoot of moviegoing. This is to say that the screen is awash with
unconventional attractions that are original without being overwhelming. Read More
“So what am I supposed to eat?” asked my son in a belligerent tone as he scanned the menu at Ping’s Seafood in Chinatown. “Dried frog? Organ belly?”
I had been told to expect changes in a sweet 12-year-old on the cusp of adolescence. But this boy had always been a fearless eater. He’d ordered Read More
I had wanted to see it for years. I was willing to put up with tourists in long R.V.’s and visitor’s-center postcards that glow in the dark. I was willing to mill and peer with my fellow Americans in a national park that would, I knew, force my once-proud bohemian feet onto guided paths, which Read More
