A chapter of American culture closes with the death of New York’s heterodox wild man, Noel Parmentel. The references are as dated as “Quemoy” and “Matsu” but, like the man who wrote the lyrics, they ...
The book, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” calls the former president a “buffoon” and vents anger over Iran, but saves its most vitriolic language for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.