David Margolick is the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink and is working on books about Little Rock in 1957 and Your Show of Shows.
A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times.
Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth
century, but you wouldn't know it from reading Marshall Berman's On
the Town.


