John Rosenthal: Regarding Manhattan

John Rosenthal: Regarding Manhattan: "'Every song of lament is simultaneously a song of praise; we only mourn the passing of things we cherish. And what the images of Regarding Manhattan teach us how to cherish is the overwhelming, sometimes dangerous, yet always enlivening disorder and multiplicity of pleasure, ambition, and desire embedded in this most American of cities.' -Alan Shapiro, from the Introduction"