I am a whistle-blower. My book blows the whistle on the censorship of Op-Ed art by The New York Times.
Read MoreThough I was a naïf from California, new to New York and the Times, I was acquainted with the work of David Levine, whose caustic caricatures in the New York Review of Books would, I thought, enhance Pfaff’s prose.
Read MoreArtist Nancy Stahl, a digital drawing pioneer, created the brilliant (literally) image you see here: a copyrighted idea glowing on a locked computer window. An ideal accompaniment to the essay.
Read MoreRoland Topor is my all-time favorite human. Our friendship developed over scores of phone conversations about the Op-Ed subjects I commissioned him to illustrate. Without reading their texts, he created deft drawings for the Op-Ed page of The Times.
Read MoreNow that the president is trumpeting the return of Korean War veterans’ remains, I’m reminded of an Op-Ed story we ran during my early days of art directing that page at The New York Times.
Read MoreJust a reminder of what you already know & why I unsuccessfully sought to publish David Levine's naked, tattooed-with-his-war-crimes Kissinger in The Times (but managed to get it on my book's 2nd edition cover).
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