Adam Liptak
Articles by Adam Liptak
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
- Mistaking itself for a hipster with a bad haircut, a baby whale went to Brooklyn today. The poor creature found its way into the Gowanus Canal, near Red Hook's 22nd Street. [WNBC, via Gowanus Lounge]
- Chinatown just got very lucky: Wired New York message-board users discovered plans for the "Leaning Tower of Lafayette," the sweetestly absurd new construction since the word "cantilever" was invented. [Curbed]
- The city heard arguments today against allowing N.Y.U. to build "the tallest building in the East Village." Exciting things like post offices and air rights and "bending zoning rules" are involved in the controversy. [Real Deal]
- CNN's mind is totally blown by the fact that people like real estate, and they like the Internet, and they use the Internet to look at real estate. [CNN/Money]
- Max J. Abelson
The Gipper and the Sycophant: His Character - and Hers
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan , by Peggy Noonan. read more »
The Gipper and the Sycophant: His Character-and Hers
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan , by Peggy Noonan. read more »
Smart, Decent Mayor Elected! (Okay, So It's a Comic Novel)
Dog Bites Man: City Shocked! read more »
The King and Tricky Dick Clasp Hands at a Dark Moment
Elvis and Nixon , by Jonathan Lowy. read more »
Book Review
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline , by Richard A. Posner. read more »
Moonlighting Celebrities Novelize Consumer Culture
Mall , by Eric Bogosian. Simon & Schuster, 246 pages, $23.hopgirl , by Steve Martin. read more »
Suck Up to Sweet Success: Try the 'Heroism of Flattery'
You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery , by Richard Stengel. read more »
A How-To Manual for Hit Men Makes Free Speech a Target
Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book , by Rod Smolla. read more »
Exhuming McCarthy in a Novel-and Doing the Oedipal Shuffle
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy , by William F. Buckley Jr. read more »
Forget Outer-Space Aliens-Check Out Washington, D.C.
Little Green Men , by Christopher Buckley. read more »
The Discreet Charm of a Lefty Who's Serious About Wages
The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life , by Thomas Geoghegan. read more »
