5 May 2011: Morning

Absent from the first-ever Fed chairman press event this week: discussion of bank regulation.

Everyone wants to prove money won't make you happy, though research shows poverty sure can make you unhappy.

Star Wars propaganda posters.

In Tuscaloosa, there is a woman, a neighbor, who walks every day from one side of town to the other, west to east to west.

Evan Fleischer tells the stories of recently deceased WWI veterans, and the histories lost with each death.

Terrific profile of 14-year-old musician, photographer, high schooler, blogger, budding journalist, and Wilco heir Spencer Tweedy.

Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it. Eco hangs it out in Confessions.

With its new Singapore campus, Yale strives to uphold academic freedom in an oppressive environment.

Library cards reveal Dorothy Parker checked out books about health, Max Eastman checked out Aristophanes, and more.

What it means to be no. 1, part 1: Def Leppard's Hysteria and why people still care about the Grammys.

I was really upset that he had asked my girlfriend to do that play with him that he had written. James Franco on life before being James Franco.