By Sridhar Pappu 2/09/04 12:00am

Off The Record

“I see part of the magazine’s job, a big part of the magazine’s job, as starting conversations,” New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati said.

Mr. Marzorati was speaking late in the afternoon on Feb. 2, having sparked the loudest conversation of his term since taking over for current Times culture czar Adam Moss last Read More

By Minna Proctor 12:00am

Haute Pulp in the Big City: The Tarantino Factor

Blood Acre , by Peter Landesman. Viking, 260 pages, $23.95.

The Narrowback , by Michael Ledwidge. Atlantic Monthly Press, 304 pages, $24.

The new esthetic in high pulp: Mrs. Dalloway meets NYPD Blue . For the cross-over audience, those haute folk who sneak a James M. Cain between their Don DeLillo and Ernest Hemingway; Read More