Product Description: On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses, the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York, continues to disturb us...read more

Profiles fifty of the most memorable and influential personalities of the twentieth century as revealed in the pages of the N.Y. Times, among them Chou-En-lai, Churchill, T.S. Eliot, Lindberg, Stravinsky, and more

Includes pieces by more than forty outstanding writers who detail their impressions of both exotic and commonplace sites around the world

Essays describe unusual aspects of the city, including the lives of local literary figures, nightlife, museums, music, food, and special places.

Practical tips on travel accompany essays about London, Paris, Rome, and Athens by V.S. Pritchett, Rona Jaffe, Saul Bellow, Muriel Spark, and Jan Morris