Culture
It’s a yoouge summer reading list: Best start now
Here’s a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books for summer reading, with all the diversity of titles and topics you...
The (nearly) unbearable price of success for Arundhati Roy
Being an activist/artist is trickier than it sounds, as India's Booker Prize-winning darling Arundhati Roy has discovered. Twenty years after The...
Coming soon: The Wharf Revue 2017
The Patriotic Rag, written and created by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe, and Phillip Scott is coming in October - and...
Dunkirk the movie: An uptick in tourism for the beaches of Normandy?
As the "tiny ships" Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster goes global, locals on the northern beaches of France are looking for...
Sale of the century: A Rockefeller’s lot goes under the hammer
The estate of banking scion and art collector David Rockefeller, who passed away in March at the age of 101,...
Change at NYT Books: Novelists sigh with relief
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times chief book reviewer and Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been, by a wide margin,...
Discovering the heart of secret Rome
A chance meeting, a shared interest in archaeology, and an unusual friendship was born in Rome between a taxi driver and...
This sexagenarian romp is a comic thriller
The Last Laugh, by Lynn Freed, reviewed by Valerie Miner for The San Francisco Chronicle. The Last Laugh is a sexagenarian...