The Apes of New York

Paperback and ebook: 244 pages;
Publisher: Cybereditions, 2003
ISBN: 1-877275-60-3 (paper); 1-877275-61-1 (ebook)

From the Publisher
“All I can think of as a personal introduction to this collection of columns is to say: I wish I were a newspaper columnist.” Readers of the lively, addictive and provocative essays collected here will readily understand Lionel Tiger’s enthusiasm, and probably wish his wish were fulfilled.

Written for the New York Press, Daily News, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal in 1998– 2002, they range from condemnation of greedy political and stock-option malefactors to celebration of Cleo Laine, astringent re. ection upon mass tourism to fond reminiscence of Pierre Trudeau, grousing about the American legal profession to praise for the New York subway system, discussion of contemporary American eating habits to commentary on “the fatuity of much of modern feminism.” There is wit, wisdom, and entertainment aplenty here for the apes of every metropolis.