To the Editor: Re ''Writers of the World'' (Sunday Review, April 29): It is timely for this paper to publish essays by Margaret Atwood, E. L. Doctorow and Martin Amis that lay out their views of the state of our nation and its politics. Judging by their observations, we as a people have a lot of work to do. It will not be easy to bypass politicians...
From April 30 to May 6, 100 writers from 25 countries will be in New York for a festival sponsored by the PEN American Center. As part of the festival, A. O. Scott, a critic for The New York Times, will talk with the writers Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood and E. L. Doctorow at a Times Talk event on May 2, co-sponsored by the Consulate General of...
A glance at the headlines from Europe, the news from Washington or this month's bills will confirm that we live in an age of debt. Debt, a concept at once straightforward and almost metaphysically complex, is a source of personal, national and global anxiety, and forms a link between the individual and the worldwide economic system. It also extends...