Pioneering comedy writer Anne Beatts's take on a president who was funny without trying

"Terror and pity: Ferlinghetti stirs up a pity for his sincere nervousness, or nervous sincerity, in quite confessional work."

On Nixon and the Republican record, Kennedy said: “I don't think a man who has had 40 accidents should be given a new driver's license.”

Voice writers Karen Durbin, Richard Goldstein, Mark Jacobson, James Wolcott, Tom Allen, Terry Curtis Fox, and J. Hoberman weigh in on the 1978 film

A true journalist, Ward had no favorites — he would call B.S. on anyone and everyone (including himself)

In the 1980s, we needed an architecture critic who could see past the fool's gold of the Reagan era's glitz

“Their first conversation of any length took place at a party earlier this year, and there they talked and carried on like old friends.”

Sixteen Writers and Artists in Search of a Decade

“Isolated for decades by immigration laws, language, and its dense pattern of poverty, Chinatown is changing rapidly.”

"It would be a tragic and immoral mistake to identify the mass of Negroes with the very small number that succumb to cheap and dishonest slogans, just as it would be a serious error to identify all Jews with the few who exploit Negroes under their economic sway."