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Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesSome viewers of an interview with Steve Martin on Monday apparently thought that it dwelt too much on the art world. In the history of intellectual chatter, the events of Nov. 29, 2010, at the 92nd Street Y will be archived under disaster. Or comedy. That night, a conversation between Steve Martin, the writer and actor, and Deborah Solomon, who writes a weekly interview column for The New York Times Magazine, resulted in the Y’s sending out a next-day apology, along with a promise of a refund. Mr. Martin, in Miami for a book event,...

In her weekly Q&A session for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, reporter Deborah Solomon conducted a strongly hostile interview with Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese-American journalist and opponent of radical Islam, while the headline blurb referred to Gabriel as a "radical Islamophobe." Here are some of the questions Solomon poses to Gabriel: Are you an agent of the U.S. government? Are you underwritten by the C.I.A.?