Author Archives: William Johnson

Regarding today’s fatuous (that is to say, silly) letter from David Kuner [September 12] concerning Jonathan Rosenbaum’s review of the September 11 movie [September 5]. It is interesting what is obvious to different people. It has become obvious to me that the actions of September 11 were an obvious message to the American people that […]

To the editors: The Reader makes me hopeful. I find, here and there in your pages, honest tremors of understanding of the truth that THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES! This greedy, slick, heartless and brainless government of ours has just completed an act of national masturbation at the cost of huge numbers of lives of […]

To the editors: The letters about Bruno Bettelheim [April 6 and 20, May 4] remind me of myself and of people I know, and of the complexity of each of us. We can know so little of each other. Sometimes the worst, sometimes the best. My perception of a local minor celebrity is that the […]