Boris Fishman

The New Republic

Politborough

Glasnost Grows In Brooklyn

One sign that this year’s race for the 46th Assembly District of New York was a little different than usual was the alleged involvement of the Kremlin. Ari Kagan, a 39-year-old journalist running for the state seat…

Burgher King

Richard Stern is the best American fiction writer of whom you have never heard. After more than five decades of dogged obscurity–despite nine novels, five story collections, a half-dozen non-fictional “miscellanies,” and a memoir–he has become “famous for not being…

Ambassadors at Large

NEW YORK DIARIST

The battle for Iraqi hearts and minds continues, and, several weeks ago, the battlefield was a conference room in New York at the Institute of International Education (IIE), which administers the Fulbright grant program. After a 14-year interruption,…