Bumming Favors Off Big Brother
With Americans spending as much time surfing the web (usually for YouTube videos of cats flushing toilets) as watching TV, we have to ask ourselves how this shift is affecting our real lives.
With Americans spending as much time surfing the web (usually for YouTube videos of cats flushing toilets) as watching TV, we have to ask ourselves how this shift is affecting our real lives.
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011
If you look at the value of things in terms of numbers, well, it can get you nuts. Since going nuts is expensive, I'm trying to think of markets differently.
Posted 05.25.2011
'Up in the Air' author Walter Kirn didn't receive an Oscar invite and he has taken to Twitter to vent. "Caution to writers: Don't expect that becaus...
Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011
In an information age it's so much more useful (not to mention fun) to expand our loved one's minds - rather than their cupboards - by sending them a list of our favorite readings.
Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011
Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.
xxxElisabeth Donnellyxxx | Posted 05.25.2011
We talked to director Jason Reitman, stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, and author Walter Kirn about their timely Up in the Air, a beautiful film about job loss and human connection.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
I've been touting Up in the Air as the year's best film since I saw it in Toronto in September -- and I still haven't seen anything that has changed my mind.
Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Walter Kirn | Posted 05.25.2011
A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
Maxwell Searcy | Posted 12.06.2011