If it’s true that opinions are like assholes, and that the internet is full of both, then please tell us why aren’t we a natural part of that? Which is exactly what we asked ourselves, and which is why, beginning today with Robert Birnbaum’s first installment of
Ralph Eugene Meatyard; The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 25 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories; Brides and Sinners in El Chuco; New Orleans, Mon Amour; Selected Writings; Something Happened; Look at the Dark; The Big Why; Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead; The Last of Her Kind
What the writers have been enjoying, watching, reading, hearing, eating, viewing, and digesting for the past 28 days.
New York's currently: smearing itself with Deep Heat According to Baghdad's main morgue, last week's violence took the lives of more than 1,300 Iraqis. E.U. to bail out Palestinian Authority, which could have collapsed in two weeks under deficit weight. Darfur violence
You’ve received the credit card statements, the cancelled checks, the postcards from Aruba. But only at the end of a case of identity theft will you discover how much was really taken from you.
New York's currently: making friends with the radiator Two-thirds of Katrina funds were spent in initial recovery, which doesn't leave much for the expected years of rebuilding. No word yet on Jill Carroll. After week of violence, Iraq's Sunni bloc returns to negotiations.
New York's currently: like a metaphor Furor in Iraq over mosque attacks leaves at least 138 dead, brings the country dangerously close to civil war. Gunmen at fake checkpoint north of Baghdad kill 47, dump their bodies in a ditch. Dubai firm agrees to delay takeover of U.
He’s gone. He’s been gone for some time. I’d still come running, though, at the very first note. Just one little round of the “Masterpiece Theatre” theme, and I’m all his, that little gas-lighting corporate mascot.
New York's currently: ringing in the year of AW More than 100 killed since Shiite shrine was wrecked, including three Sunni clerics, plus 90 Sunni mosques attacked. Slideshow of damaged shrine. Despite Condi's pleas, Saudis walk like Egyptians, will continue to fund Hamas. South Dakota attacks
A gallery of images from photographer Tema Stauffer showing aspects of New Orleans—abandoned lives, startling ruin, subtle beauty—you can’t catch on CNN.
