Umberto Eco

Italian Moms Think Preschool Babe Too Hot for Bambinos

Tony Phillips | Posted 05.21.2012

Tony Phillips

And so what, then, if a preschool teacher makes a Lira or two on the side posing for calendars your kids shouldn't be looking at anyway? If it advances the cause of women's empowerment in a still very gender-divided society, I'm all for it.

Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival

Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012

Victoria Lautman

To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.

The Far Side Of Religion: Notes On The Prophet Gary Larson

Michael Gilmour | Posted 09.06.2011

Michael Gilmour

Ask anyone who read newspapers during the 1980s and '90s and they can recall at least one Far Side cartoon. What is surprising is the extent of the religious material found in these pages.

Bad Trips: Wonderful Essays About Awful Travel Experiences

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.14.2011

Vacations are sacred, especially in America, where we work longer hours than our counterparts in Europe and still aren’t legally entitled to a singl...

Unfilmable Books

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Books and movies have gone hand-in-hand since Hollywood's very beginnings. Some of its greatest triumphs--"The Godfather," "Gone With The Wind," "The ...

The 'Fascinating Fascism' of Sarah Palin

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Ariel Gonzalez

Sarah Palin lacks optimism and humor, two of Reagan's strongest traits. If she runs, it'll be on a platform of grievance. And her speeches will drip with bilious sarcasm.

Milorad Pavic Dead: Serbian Author Wrote Non-Traditional, Inventive Novels

The New York Times | MARGALIT FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

Milorad Pavic, an internationally prominent Serbian writer whose novels upended the traditional relationship between reader and text, taking the form ...

The Big Lebowski Spawns Literary Works

The New York Times | Dwight Garner | Posted 05.25.2011

Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, "The Big Lebowski," which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude,...