Today's (3 February 2013) Sunday New York Times Magazine has an article about an author I'd never heard of who has given me the strongest urge yet to learn French.

Not the desire to read in the original the likes of Flaubert, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Jules Verne, Joseph Kessel, Henri-Pierre Roché, Albert Simonin, Auguste le Breton, Georges Bataille ( Read more... )

New York Magazine's "Daily Intel" blog linked yesterday to a just under eight-minute interview that the Wall Street Journal conducted with Donald Trump, whose latest bid for media attention has been to jump on board the so-called Birther bandwagon (i.e., those folks who loudly insist that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen by birth ( Read more... )