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From back to front, Arsenal are in need of the following: a back-up goalkeeper, a defensive midfielder (or two), a centre-forward and a winger. Depending on possible departures, they may also be on ...
Martin Peretz in his magazine office. (Bettmann / Getty Images) Marty Peretz has led a large life, one he recounts with aplomb in his autobiography, The Controversialist. As publisher and editor ...
MSNBC is difficult to watch these days, but so is Fox News. The warring ideologies are so comfortable in their alarmism, and their certitude about being the noble, much put-upon victims of the other s ...
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.
On The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz. Yet he relates, with pained bemusement, how it all ended badly. His magazine began hemorrhaging money, and he ...
In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic.
Russell Brand; Trafigura; a fireball; Vivek Ramaswamy; Martin Peretz; fentanyl; stats; history; and Mitt Romney’s ketchup salmon ...
These are writers at the mercy of a political agenda, which makes them the most boring kind of writers. In its heyday, under the ownership of Martin Peretz, TNR was anything but boring.
That is how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is described by Martin Peretz, the former owner of the New Republic, who taught Kennedy at Harvard. Mr. Peretz’s new memoir, “The Controversialist,” reports that ...
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 ...