Highlights from this Sunday's Times (7/19/09)

Kestutis Demereckas. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)

- Michael Wilson on Kestutis Demereckas, the man who finds space for ever more plots at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
- Joe Queenan on literary escorts
- Tom Wolfe on the day NASA failed, as far as he's concerned

The new Newsweek vs. the old New York Review

New York Observer media reporter John Koblin delivers a hip introduction to the revamped Newsweek and its hotshot editor, Jon Meacham, in a voice that calls to mind Talese & Wolfe.

Contrast it with Janny Scott's 1997 New York Times profile of The New York Review of Books' top dog, Robert Silvers.