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A fight broke out on the floor of the California state assembly between lawmakers debating the state's new budget . And...Spew anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism and nothing happens
The Jerusalem Post reports on a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in which he blames just about every...Fracking fight could breed property rights advocates
Adam J White makes a great point about natural gas development and eminent domain when he argues that Republicans...
Anthony Weiner could have just written a letter.
No sooner did New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic legislative leaders sign a landmark pension-reform deal than unionized government employees took to the streets of Trenton yesterday to block traffic.
Good news: State regulations on city rents officially expired Wednesday. Bad news: Lawmakers are sure to renew them soon nonetheless.
Mayor Bloomberg's dream of forever being remembered as the savior of New York's schools is in danger.
Pakistan's military has arrested five CIA informants said to have helped keep tabs on Osama bin Laden in the months before Navy SEALs swooped in and killed the arch-terrorist.
The Weiner case is finally closed, and New Yorkers probably don't have to worry about him running for mayor in 2013 ("Weiner Steps Down Following Sexting Scandal," June 16).
Thank you for standing up for traditional marriage ("A Matter of Conscience," Editorial, June 14). Despite overwhelming public support, it isn't an easy thing to do, thanks to...
My incarceration crept up on me over years, built not in a day, but in millions of moments, one upon the next, as if each were a single brick in some ominous structure of my own...
HBO may have pulled the plug on “In Treatment,” but Gabriel Byrne — its star shrink — is only too happy to analyze the Irish love affair with words. “I suppose it has something to...
He was the Donald Trump of the Gilded Age — flamboyant, ambitious, egregious. He glittered when he walked, his peacock wardrobe shrieking, his diamond rings sparkling, his...
The Language of the Sea by James MacManus (Thomas Dunne) Leo Kemp lives the idyllic life. He’s a well-liked professor of marine studies at an institute on Cape Cod. He has a...
On April 20, 1939, Germany’s Nazi Party celebrated Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday with an orgy of gift-giving and a display of military firepower unparalleled in the history of the...
On film, she’ll be 16 forever, but Molly Ringwald is now a 43-year-old mother of three, with all the attendant joys and challenges — like trying to explain, to a 7-year-old, why...
CRIME & PUNISHMENT Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, June 14) The actors portraying 007 are always changing, so why not the authors? Deaver (“The Bone...
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff Harper When Margaret Hastings found her best friend dead, all she could think about were her shoes. “I ought to have cried,” Hastings wrote...
Lady Blue Eyes My Life With Frank by Barbara Sinatra (Crown) “He considered writing a book himself, but decided against it,” Barbara Sinatra tells Required Reading of her husband...
When told that it’s hard to read his memoir, “An Improvised Life,” without hearing his voice — gruff, semi-sarcastic but wise — in every sentence, Alan Arkin responds in...
A few years ago, the world’s richest arts organization became the epicenter of a scandal that, like revelations of steroid use in baseball, exposed a dirty little secret of the...
Stories My Father Told Me Notes from the Lyon’s Den by Jeffery Lyons Abbeville Press He dined with Alfred Hitchcock in New York’s swankiest restaurants, called Orson Welles his...
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (Knopf) Fans of Stieg Larsson, rejoice: A serial killer called the Snowman is stalking innocent mothers and wives in Norway. And Nesbo’s anti-hero cop,...
Broadcast legend Larry King has released a new memoir called “Truth Be Told” (Weinstein Books). But anyone who expects his writing to be more coherent than his interview style...
The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman Wiley To be a New Yorker is to be in a perpetual state of annoyance. Leaving doesn’t help — if anything, it only...
His life is an open book — or so it seems, as John Leguizamo lays bare his personal and professional life in one show after another. “I guess the only things that are taboo are my...
In four short months during the summer and fall of 1888, a man known as “Jack the Ripper” killed five, perhaps six, prostitutes in a horrific and dramatic fashion on the streets...
2030 The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks (St. Martin’s) In his debut novel, film funnyman Brooks imagines a near future in which cancer is cured and Baby...
Sarah Vowell can always tell when a book’s welling up inside her. “There’s usually a moment I either get riled up or realize how riled up I am,” she says. Her latest — “Unfamiliar...
A Tale of Movies, The Mob (and Sex) by Peter Bart Weinstein Books When Paramount Pictures was considering making a film version of the novel “The Godfather,” one Hollywood...
Stan Musial An American Life by George Vecsey (Ballantine) Here in the land of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, St. Louis Cardinal Hall of Famer Stan Musial doesn’t get much...
Tom Colicchio’s literary tastes are as eclectic and enlightened as his food. “I’d have to say they’re more gourmet than fast food,” he says, laughing, “though I like short...
The Compass of Pleasure How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good by David J. Linden Viking Need to lose...
William Shakespeare was the most influential writer who ever lived. Even those who haven’t read his plays know his words, from “to be or not to be” to “let slip the dogs of war.”...
You Are What You Speak Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene Delacorte Press Having made a living as a writer since I was 21, having...
Play Like You Mean It by Rex Ryan with Don Yaeger (Doubleday) When loquacious Jets head coach Rex Ryan sits with David Letterman tomorrow night, don’t expect him to discuss his...
Evel The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend by Leigh Montville Doubleday His name now blurs into the haze of posterity. But in the late...
You hear about actresses being discovered at a lunch counter or restaurant — but rare is the restaurateur who lands a part that way. Nevertheless, that’s how B. Smith joined the...
Winged Obsession The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfl y Smuggler by Jessica Speart William Morrow With $45,000 you could get a new car, place a down payment on a...
A Billion Wicked Thoughts What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam Dutton Upon leaving his work as a biodefense researcher at MIT...
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