Contributors to New York Times

  1. Andrew Bast(2)
  2. Omid Memarian(1)

  1. A Firebrand in a House of Cards

    by Omid Memarian

    Berkeley, Calif. IN defying international monitors and breaking the seals on its nuclear facilities, Iran seems to be courting confrontation. But Western leaders would do well to consider what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bravado really says about Iran's likely posture in the region and at the nuclear talks that are scheduled to resume at the end of January.


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  2. A Translator's Long Journey, Page by Page

    by Andrew Bast

    On Gregory Rabassa's crowded bookshelves is a first edition of "Rayuela," the experimental 1963 novel by the Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar. Mr. Rabassa had just finished his Ph.D. in Portuguese in the mid-1960's when an editor at Pantheon — who had noticed his work editing a failed literary magazine at Columbia University — asked him to translate Mr.


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  3. Sax Advice

    by Andrew Bast
    • Published:
      1. New York Times, February 02, 2004
    • Metainfo:
      • 104 words
      • 3.5 inches

    (An Elizabethan sonnet.) In the cold distance he tooted his horn Up the deep caverns of Fifth Avenue Hearing from across the street I was torn The time was nigh, my burning question due I dropped a folded dollar


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