Abe Rosenthal died yesterday at the age of 84, from the effects of a severe stroke he suffered two weeks ago. As the dominant editor of The New York Times from 1969 to 1985, he inspired more admiration, emulation and vilification than any other journalist of his generation.
He was an up-from-the-bootstraps New York City Read More
Abe Rosenthal died yesterday at the age of 84, from the effects of a severe stroke he suffered two weeks ago. As the dominant editor of The New York Times from 1969 to 1985, he inspired more admiration, emulation and vilification than any other journalist of his generation.
He was an up-from-the-bootstraps New York City Read More
The celebrated and reviled Polish novelist Jerzy Kosinski
was a fantasist in a good cause-namely, art and himself. He’s a fascinating
subject for a play, which is, of course, another good cause and fantastic
illusion.
On the one hand, Kosinski’s award-winning 1965
autobiographical novel of the Holocaust, The
Painted Bird, made him a literary Read More
