Less than a month before he left office at the end of 2016, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon apologized to the Haitian people. “We simply did not do enough with regard to the cholera outbreak and its spread in Haiti,” he said of the epidemic that has…

(Published in City Arts, December, 2014)

Gordon Edelstein likes to kibitz. He’s just arrived at a Ninth Avenue restaurant from a preview of My Name is Asher Lev, a play he’s directing, and he spots an old friend, an aging actor…

In May 1942, federal authorities warned New York that the glow of city lights was…