'Super Sad' And Satiric, Two Stories Of Doomed Love
Gary Shteyngart's dystopian novel narrates two doomed romances: one between a man and a woman, and one between a writer and his country -- or what he fears his country may become. By turns fierce, funny and frightening, Super Sad True Love Story deserves a place on the shelf beside 1984 and Brave New World.
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Another Bittersweet Taste | Sequel doesn't live up to its predecessor, and Salt needs more seasoning
While not yet having seen Inception, it seems that the best movies I have seen this summer haven't been coming from Hollywood. What am I saying? They clearly aren't coming from Hollywood. It's been a pretty weak and disappointing season, overall, and I think the way Inception is performing (i.e. sp... By Joe O'Shansky.
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Life's better with free-range
MORE people are discovering cakes rise and breakfast tastes better with free-range eggs, writes ANDREW MOLE
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Spy13: hot to plot
MEL GIBSON is the victim of an insidious and ruthless red communist plot that threatens to undermine Western civilisation. That Oksana Grigorieva, the 13th spy, is a deep-cover Russian operative there can be no doubt.
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Keeping Animals Out of Flower Beds
I LIVE in a northern suburb of New York, close enough to a local truck route that there is a constant rumble from the nearby intersection. But in the evening, when the traffic slows and the light softens, it feels as if I'm in more-remote country.
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