Helen Newman Memo to all plagiarists, fabricators, jailhouse-memoirists and other literary charlatans: This is a story about a writer. Helen Newman, 29, lives at her mother’s place in Brooklyn. She teaches English at a cram school for Korean kids, sometimes…
I don’t care whether it was Ambien or alcohol; I wonder whether Patrick Kennedy isn’t—unconsciously—seeking a way out of politics with his latest run-in with the law. Kennedy last went into rehab just five months ago, now he’s going back….
Valerie (Plame) (Wilson)—who can be sure which name to parenthesize?—is said to be getting $2.5 million for a memoir of her life as a CIA analyst, demonstrating that the leaking of her name is the best thing that ever happened…
When Steve Nash said yesterday, “I’m not going to give it back,” he was talking to all the people like me who didn’t want him to win MVP twice in a row. If you believe in democracy—O.K., elitist democracy— you…
Andrew Sullivan is once again horrified by reports of widespread American torture, this time from Amnesty International. Whatever else this administration has done, whatever other mistakes it has made, this abandonment of long-standing American honor and decency in the military…
I love Professor Juan Cole’s site. He’s been a leading voice against the Iraq war, he knows what he’s talking about and he writes with sympathy for the Arab world from the standpoint of an international American who cherishes America’s…
I stayed up till 1:30 last night to watch the Suns’ victory over the Lakers in overtime. I felt awed by the displays of power by Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. Nash may lack Kobe’s athleticism, and Jordanity, but it…
Knuckleheads leave their garbage at the trail head, and my dog came out of the bushes with his head stuck in the loop of a bag. He got out on his own.
In retrospect I think that I failed to understand a couple weeks back when my wife said that George Clooney was her type. My wife is good on personalities, and we were talking about actors so I started testing her…