Harry Reynolds
Harry Reynolds worked in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, before which he held other governmental legal positions.
Yuri
[ people - march 13 ]
"When I was a boy in knickers, history was a story about events we saw around us, but there came a day when suddenly I saw that there was an unseen, unspoken, history of what was going on when we were not looking""
How I became a lawyer
[ fiction - july 12 ]
"In the end, I saw that God had absolutely nothing to do with good and evil, that good and evil were, so to speak, none of his business."
Sister Philomena
[ people - may 11 ]
"I am eight in the third grade in a Catholic school in a slum with crazy Sister Philomena and God all around in a dark land of prayer, guilt, daily Masses, a bleeding Christ crucified above the blackboard, the fear of having my face slapped or my hands beaten with a ruler"
The man in my rear view mirror
[ people - april 11 ]
"In life, the future sometimes brushes against us, like a pet dog."
Poisoning the press
[ bookreviews ]
A dissection of the pursuit of an unsavoury politician by an equally unpleasant journalist
Julia
[ people - september 10 ]
A Ruthenian story
The Poisoner's Handbook
[ bookreviews ]
The Jazz Age toxicology pioneer.
Why the Dreyfus Affair matters
[ bookreviews ]
Plus ça change...
Ryan's room
[ fiction - january 10 ]
A short story about the secrets of the confessional
Packing the court
[ bookreviews ]
A brisk attack on the Supreme Court's power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
Limbo
[ fiction - april 09 ]
"They say the Vatican is abolishing limbo. The baby souls go straight to heaven, Harry."
The right to sleep in the Tompkins Square public library in 1935
[ people - march 09 ]
"In the winter of 1935, my uncle Lester entered the library to struggle through a hangover and he couldn't manage another block."
Sunday in the Park
[ people - february 09 ]
"When I was ten, I was a translator for my lip-reading, deaf mother..."
East Seventh Street: Christmas, 1937
[ places - january 09 ]
"I am nine years old. There is a God. Jesus Christ is his son."
The dark side
[ bookreviews ]
"An appalling, profoundly disturbing revelation of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism..."
The Commission
[ bookreviews ]
"Where 9/11 widows saw lost husbands, Karl Rove saw the loss of Bush's presidency."
Billie Boy
[ poetry - january 08 ]
She did it her way...
[ bookreviews ]
A new biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton is damning, though probably not in the way its authors hoped.
Grand illusion
[ bookreviews ]
"When Giuliani claims that the police and fire departments had been prepared prior to 9/11 to act in coordination in a terror attack, we wonder first over his memory, and then over his integrity..."
Spoiling for a fight
[ bookreviews ]
A Pulitzer-worthy tale of NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's encounters with corporate sleaze.
His Excellency
[ bookreviews ]
The best one-volume biography of George Washington.
The brother
[ bookreviews ]
The Rosenbergs brought - a little late - to life.
Beyond glory
[ bookreviews ]
A knockout story.
My FBI
[ bookreviews ]
The Bureau's former head on the mafia, Clinton and the war on terror.
Becoming Justice Blackmun
[ bookreviews ]
The author deserves a second Pulitzer
Rehnquist, the Clerk
[ opinion - august 05 ]
Justice has not only to be done; it has to be seen to be believed...
Martin Niemoller's famous statement
[ opinion - october 04 ]
It might be time to re-assess the reputation of Hitler's personal prisoner and defender of the Jews
I heard you paint houses
[ bookreviews ]
Frank Sheeran took to the life of hit man, thief, thug, bagman and corrupt Teamster official like a fish to water.
American Mafia
[ bookreviews ]
The good old days...
The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan
[ bookreviews ]
An exemplary examination of the Japanese prosecutorial system.
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