The Paper That Kept Almost Dying
Closed mid-April 1993 · On stands late April 1993
The Front
The Pin They Wore to Work
The Post's ownership collapses again, and its staff stages a revolt marked by a small worn teardrop pin — a media-world essay on a paper that will not stay bought
Field Notes: The Umbrella Stand
A count of umbrellas abandoned in the lobby stand over one wet week
The Essay
The Tabloid's Long Argument With Itself
A furniture essay on why a certain kind of American city keeps at least two feuding tabloids alive past the point sense would allow
The Foreign File
Warsaw, a Working Spring
A short dispatch on the shape of the new market economy, four years in
The Feature Well
The Chef Who Sold the Restaurant
A profile of a chef who traded his flagship dining room for a hotel-group licensing deal, and what the money bought him back
The City
Subject: A furniture piece on the last manned tollbooths at a Harlem River crossing
The Back
Books: A review essay on the season's media memoirs · Art: A gallery note on newsprint as a material in contemporary collage · Film: A dispatch on newsroom pictures, old and new