In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic.

In his new memoir, The Controversialist, Martin Peretz offers a gritty, propulsive, and fascinating account of his career. (Via Jewish News Syndicate) The art critic Harold Rosenberg once referred ...

(Update, with video, at the end.) Today the Social Studies program at Harvard will celebrate its 50th anniversary, and at noon Martin Peretz of the New Republic will (as noted here) be recognized ...

In today's New York Times, Martin Peretz laments the ill effects of Web journalism and blogs on political culture.

Martin Peretz helped return the Democratic Party from its anti-Vietnam excesses to the foreign-policy center. Now he laments that the president he supported in 2008 gets the U.N., the Arab world ...

The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left, Right, and Center, by Martin Peretz, Wicked Son, 336 pages. The first thing most people remember about Martin Peretz, the longtime owner and ...

Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, even agitated, in ...

Martin Peretz, former publisher and editor in chief of The New Republic, had a column in the opinion section of yesterday's Wall Street Journal that possesses considerable stunt value: The man who ...

Benjamin Wallace-Wells' story on The New Republic's long-time editor-in-chief Martin Peretz and his "beef with the world" is worth your click-thru for the photos alone. The news: A few weeks ago ...

Did Peretz’s excellent book have weaknesses? Yes, though not all were the fault of the author in Peretz. The reality is that as the economics of publishing worsen, so does the editing.

Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, even agitated, in ...