A collection of 11 short pieces of reporting and criticism on topics including Central Park jogger case and racial profiling in New York City, the fire season of California, and the Presidential election of 1988. Most of the essays were written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 319 pages. 24.5 x 14 x3. Hardback. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket.