Magic Alert

August 13, 2007 · Magazine, Lisa Schiffren, Books and Arts

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

A Defamation Is Born

March 26, 2007 · Magazine, Lisa Schiffren

On February 4, 2005, an Italian journalist named Giuliana Sgrena was captured and held hostage by a group of angry Muslims in Iraq. After a month of none too covert negotiating by the Italian government, she was released to a high-ranking member of the Italian intelligence service. How many Western…

Remembering Abdul Haq

November 12, 2001 · Magazine, Lisa Schiffren

ABDUL HAQ, the legendary Afghan resistance commander, was captured and hanged on October 25 by the Taliban while on a mission inside Afghanistan to contact local Taliban leaders who wished to defect. In the war against the Soviets, Abdul Haq had led large-scale operations in and around Kabul. In…

ISN'T IT PATHETIC?

June 2, 1997 · Magazine, Lisa Schiffren, Books and Arts

Despite negative reviews in all I the New York papers, the night I saw An American Daughter, the latest Broadway offering by the Pulitzer-prize- winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, the audience was packed with visibly high-powered, sophisticated Manhattanites. They bore little resemblance to the…