Editors

As an exacting reviewer myself, I have always welcomed honest criticism of anything I have written or said. But I do believe your readers are entitled to a negative review when it engages with the book and takes it to task, if necessary, for its errors of commission or omission. Instead, Sunil Khilnani dismisses my book, "India: From Midnight to the Millennium" (Book Review, Sept. 14) in two sneeringly patronizing paragraphs, full of completely unsubstantiated judgments about its contents.

Officials at Bloomberg, the New York financial news and information service, scrambled to deal with an unfolding customer privacy scandal after admitting its journalists had snooped on business clients for years through its network of terminals ubiquitous on Wall Street. Seeking to calm Bloomberg's 315,000 subscribers worldwide, the editor in chief of Bloomberg News said Monday: "Our reporters should not have access to any data considered proprietary. " "Last month, we immediately changed our policy so that reporters now have no greater access to information than our customers," Matthew Winkler said in a post on Bloomberg's website.

Dmitri, Pavel, Alexei and Zossima take the onstage antics and off-beat charms of "The Flying Karamazov Brothers" on the road with a handful of Southland performances, including two in Malibu. The successful Broadway variety show moves from slapstick comedy to high-powered juggling and musicianship, making it a great family outing. Pepperdine University Center for the Arts, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. , 2 and 7 p.m. Sun. $40, general; $20, children. http://www.fkb.com .

Mary Thom, an early staffer at Ms. magazine who rose to executive editor and later wrote an insider's history of the groundbreaking, mass-market chronicle of the women's movement, died Friday in a motorcycle crash in Yonkers, N.Y. She was 68. Her death was announced by the Women's Media Center, a nonprofit New York-based organization founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Ms. co-founder Gloria Steinem. Thom was editor-in-chief for the center, which publishes features on women's issues in addition to offering media training and advocacy.

After 22 years as an integral part of The Times sports department, Mike James was named sports editor Monday. James, 60, replaces Randy Harvey, who recently became the paper's associate editor after three years as sports editor.

Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities Thursday as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums. Randy Harvey, The Times' sports editor since 2006, was named associate editor and will oversee the completion of a plan developed last year to create a news-gathering operation that serves print, the Times website, mobile devices, television, radio, Twitter and Facebook.

A new translation of Sophocles' "Elektra" springs to life on the Getty Villa's outdoor stage. Starring Tyrees Allen and Olympia Dukakis, the spare and modern interpretation tells the tragic tale of willful memory, vengeance and the damage that happens to someone who refuses to forget. Getty Villa Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades. 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat. Ends Oct. 2. $42, (310) 440-7300. http://www.getty.edu.

Nancie Clare was named editor of LA, the Los Angeles Times Media Group's monthly Sunday magazine, in the latest in a series of management changes. Effective immediately, Clare replaces Annie Gilbar, who shepherded the magazine's relaunch in September 2008, the group said Monday. After serving as editor in chief for the last year, Gilbar is leaving the company. Clare also participated in the relaunch and was promoted to executive editor in January after serving as deputy editor.

Roll into 2011 with style and swagger at KCRW's New Year's Eve soiree at the Viceroy Hotel. The lux Santa Monica venue will transform its patio to an NYE playland, with DJs including Mayer Hawthorne, Classixx, Jason Bentley and Raul Campos. For more on this and dozens of NYE options, check out our online party guide at latimes.com/newyearseve . Viceroy Hotel, 1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. 9 p.m. $200 presale, $250 at the door. (310) 260-7500. viceroyhotelsandresorts.com.

The editors of "Babel," "Casino Royale," "The Departed," "The Queen" and "United 93" have been nominated by peers for work in the dramatic feature category of the American Cinema Editors awards. On the comedy/musical front, movies nominated are "The Devil Wears Prada," "Dreamgirls," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Thank You for Smoking."

Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara home. He was 75. Greenwood had prostate cancer for seven years, said his daughter, Diana. "He was from the old swashbuckling school of journalism," said Times Sacramento columnist George Skelton. "What he would always tell me was 'You know more about this stuff than the people you're interviewing - so just say it.' He didn't pull any punches.

Harkham will appear at the Festival of Books Saturday at 2 p.m. on the panel "Drawing the Story" with Leela Corman and Derek Kirk Kim. More information:  latimes.com/festivalofbooks Sammy Harkham is like a lot of comics fans: He's cared deeply about the genre since adolescence and feels both joy and pain as it continues to soar and occasionally stumble from the cultural backwater. He also wants it to be art, to aim high (and low) without ever losing its raw, unpredictable energy.

"Parental love is the sacrifice made in silence," says Jorgen Hofmeester, the protagonist of "Tirza," Arnon Grunberg's latest translated novel. In "Tirza," the quiet martyrdom of parenthood rubs up against the banality of bourgeois life. Sacrifices go un-repaid and parents struggle as their children begin to spin beyond their orbit and their own carefully tended lives are revealed as hollow. Grunberg is a major Dutch writer, turning out nearly a book a year, often to high praise and controversy.

In the realm of Hollywood film editors, Avid Technology Inc., is king. But in recent weeks, some unsettling news about the company has its loyal users worried about the company's future. I came across some of these concerns while reporting a story this week about how Apple is making a push to get high-end professional editors to take another look at Final Cut Pro X. The story notes that there appears to be some opportunity for Apple to take a run at this market in part because Avid has had some financial issues.  PHOTOS: Top 10 must-have smartphone apps Earlier in the year, Avid  CEO Gary Greenfield said he was stepping down and the company replaced him with Louis Hernandez, a veteran member of Avid's board of directors.

PARIS - Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, sits calmly behind a desk in a large, messy office with no sign outside indicating the name of his publication. True, there is a riot police car stationed in the street, but basically, he says, he doesn't see what all the fuss is about. "It just so happens I'm more likely to get run over by a bicycle in Paris than get assassinated," says Charb, the soft-spoken editor of Charlie Hebdo, a left-leaning French satirical weekly, which since 2006 has been sued, threatened and firebombed for its sporadic publication of cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

A Reuters deputy social-media editor was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges connected to a hack of the Los Angeles Times' website in 2010. Matthew Keys, who tweets as @TheMatthewKeys and has more than 23,000 followers, faces charges of conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer and transmission of malicious code. In a news release, the Justice Department said Keys faces up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 for each of the three counts he faces.

Reader reaction was strong to Thursday's front-page photo of a mortally wounded J. Christopher Stevens, a U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens was killed Tuesday along with three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Bengazi, Libya. As the article that accompanied the photo noted, he was the first U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979. Some readers called the photo graphic, unwarranted, inappropriate, disgraceful, gratuitous and insensitive.  “I feel it was very distasteful and disrespectful to post the picture of Christopher Stevens, in death in such graphic detail, on the front page,” Donna Shontell of Sherman Oaks said.

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger has found lots of ways to keep busy since leaving the governor's office, including starring in action movies and lending his name to a policy institute at USC. Now he'll return to a role that stirred controversy during his time in Sacramento: serving as executive editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines. The move was announced Friday by American Media Inc., which owns the magazines. Schwarzenegger, who was named Mr. Olympia seven times, first took the editorship shortly after winning the 2003 gubernatorial recall election.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has found lots of ways to keep busy since leaving the governor's office, from starring in action movies to lending his name to a policy institute at the University of Southern California. Now he's going to be returning to a role that stirred controversy during his stint in Sacramento -- Schwarzenegger will once again serve as executive editor at Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines. The move was announced on Friday by American Media Inc., which owns the magazines.