There's been a lot of talk about Bush nostalgia lately. At Martha's Vineyard, the Obama-bilia...
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So now it transpires that a key money- man behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque is a one-time supporter of a group shut down by the feds because it was a front for Hamas.
What's in the water in Queens?
The chart that accompanies your fine editorial, "Obama's Spending Spree" (Aug. 30), disproves, once and for all, the progressive Democrats' deceitful narrative about the economy.
It is unfortunate that Andrea Peyser failed to let her readers know about the alternative measures available to wildlife management agencies to humanely deal with the growing population of Canada Geese in the city ("Silly Goose War in Prospect Pk.," Aug. 30).
By forcing the Democrats to return the contribution from Walmart, which only helps keep them in power, the union leaders are once again demonstrating their stupidity and utter lack of political sophistication ("Dems Find Trouble in $tore," Aug. 30).
Body Work by Sara Paretsky (Putnam) In Sara Paretsky’s 14th V.I. Warshawski book, her intrepid Chicago private eye spends a night out at Windy City hot spot Club Gouge, where the...
From the time they met, Jorge and Laura Posada would seem to have a charmed life. She was his dark-haired enamorada, an attorney and sometime model and actress from his native...
You may think Roz Chast spends most of her waking hours cartooning for The New Yorker. But no. “My life centers around cleaning cages,” she sighs. Until recently, she had three...
It’s late summer, and you can’t swipe a MetroCard in this town without running into a tomato. Restaurants are celebrating their late summer season with festivals and special...
“Before I had kids, I was a voracious reader, reading two or three books at a time,” says Rob Corddry. “Now, in my downtime, it takes all the energy I have to play ‘Angry Birds’...
Serious Men by Manu Joseph (Norton) In Joseph’s Mumbai-based satire, Ayyan Mani is an ambitious “untouchable” who works as an assistant at the Institute of Theory and Research...
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux Walter and Patty Berglund have problems, big problems. He’s frustrated. She’s depressed. Their son, a high-school junior,...
After he wrote classics like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” author Roald Dahl tackled another hero of young boys everywhere — James Bond. Working on the screenplay for the...
In May of 2003, an enlisted infantry soldier named Pat Tillman wrote in Baghdad, “a bunch of EPWs [enemy prisoners of war] escaped from across the street today. Twenty escaped...
“Who knew?” So begins Susan Isaacs’ latest, “As Husbands Go” (Scribner), in which Susie Gersten — beautiful, rich and shallow — learns her husband is dead. Even worse: His body...
Blind Man’s Alley by Justin Peacock (Doubleday) When three construction workers die on a condo in SoHo, the building’s developer, Simon Roth, faces a fallout — including mounting...
With Friends Like These by Sally Koslow (Ballantine) It’s a West Side story. In an eight-room, rent-controlled apartment on 92nd and West End, Koslow’s four twentysomething...
It was called Murderess Row, the section of the Cook County Jail in Chicago reserved for women waiting to stand trial for murder — and in 1924, it was the place to be. Women in...
Confronted by 60 cannibal tribesmen carrying spears, Larry Harmon recalled what the grizzled Aussie bush pilot had said upon dropping him off at the airstrip. “You ain’t coming...
“Glee” returns for a second season Sept. 21 and Jayma Mays, for one, can’t wait. “I feel sometimes I’m a fan more than part of the show,” says the woman who plays saucer-eyed...
Of all the tattoos that grace Angelina Jolie’s A-list body — the geographical coordinates of her children’s birthplaces, a 12-inch long Bengal tiger tramp stamp, the inner thigh...
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart (Doubleday) Balthazar Jones is a Beefeater, one of those peculiarly dressed men who serves the queen and guards the Tower of...
Of all the arguments and ideas posited in the intriguing “Sex at Dawn,” its dominant one is the most controversial: Humans are not, nor have ever been, wired for monogamy, and our...
For a guy who’s four years away from ordering a cocktail, Josh Hutcherson, 17, keeps sophisticated company. These days, you’ll catch him with Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and...
Former Gov. Hugh L. Carey is the Harry Truman of New York state — a political figure who left office in disrepute, only to have his stature rise in later decades. Just as Truman’s...
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Random House) Leningrad-born New Yorker Shteyngart satirized his native land in “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and...
There are 8 million stories in the naked city — and almost as many ways to break the law. The 21 volume New York City Charter and Administrative Code, and the 14 volume Rules of...
So, Wendy Williams — former DJ, TV and radio talk-show host, author and celebrity baiter — what’s it like to be the Queen of All Media? “I’ve done away with titles, but yeah, I...
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer (Spiegel & Grau) With “Ellington Boulevard,” Langer captured the New York obsession with real estate. In his newest novel, he takes on the...
The periodic table is many things — an invaluable scientific tool and a microcosm of the history of science. It’s also a storybook of all the wonderful and clever and ugly aspects...
Tennis has been very good to Venus Williams — and vice-versa — helping her succeed off the court as well, in interior design and fashion. No wonder the grand-slam champ had little...
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. Two bomb squad detectives placed their ears against a leather suitcase. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. One of the detectives, Joe Lynch, bent...
As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs (Simon & Schuster) Isaacs’ latest witty heroine is Susan B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gerston, a floral designer and mother of young triplet boys whose...
Everything you wanted to know about ants, courtesy of the addictive “Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions” (University of California Press) by Mark W...
Politics is like love — passions run high. And when they cool, rejection is intense. Consider Commentary magazine — an extraordinary monthly founded by left-wing Jews in 1945 that...
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