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October 30, 2008

New York City Crime and Punishment

Continuing our look at New York City via The Almanac of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and Fred Kameny, here are some facts and figures relating to crime and punishment in New York City. (And don’t forget...

October 29, 2008

Eastern European Literature

It is not very often that international literature is covered in the seemingly ever-shrinking space allowed for book reviews in newspapers, so it was especially nice to see Carlin Romano’s review of Harold Segel’s The Columbia Literary History of Eastern...

October 29, 2008

Real Estate — More from The Almanac of New York City

Whether it is during financial crises or periods of economic prosperity, real estate is frequently on the minds of New Yorkers. According to The Almanac of New York City, New York City has the most expensive average rents in the...

October 28, 2008

Autism's False Prophets in Newsweek

Newsweek recently published “Stomping Through a Medical Minefield,” which focuses on Paul Offit and his recent book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. The article discusses the book as well as how Offit...

October 28, 2008

The Almanac of New York City

Over the next few days we will be posting some interesting facts and figures (see below) about our fair city that can be found in the recently published The Almanac of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and...

October 27, 2008

Interview with Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

As part of his recent visit to the United States, which included talks on the West Coast, and in Chicago, and New York City, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, author of The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a...

October 24, 2008

Yaddo

The New York Public Library’s exhibition, Yaddo: Making American Culture opens today at the main branch at 42nd and Fifth Avenue. There is also a review of the exhibition in today’s New York Times. For those of us who cannot...

October 23, 2008

Op-Ed Art from the New York Times

Jerelle Kraus, the former art director at the New York Times, and author of the just published All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some that Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page, reveals the true story of...

October 22, 2008

Frederick Douglass Opie Discusses Soul Food on NPR

Is soul food healthy? What was the connection between soul food and the Black Power movement of the 1960s? How did European exploration affect West African food? These are just some of the questions that Frederick Douglass Opie, author of...

October 21, 2008

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality in the Los Angeles Times

But what if that standard [of the hard-boiled narrative] had less to do with Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe than with Ellen Montgomery, the naive young heroine of Susan Warner’s 1850 bestseller “The Wide, Wide World”? What if the walk...

October 20, 2008

Don Hollenbeck: A Pioneer in Media Criticism

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about Don Hollenbeck and Loren Ghiglione’s new biography, CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. The book and the article come on the heels of the...

October 17, 2008

The Authors of Gastropolis Answer Your Questions

As we mentioned earlier this week, Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, authors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City, have been fielding questions from readers of the New York Times City Room blog. Yesterday was the second round and they...