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Eve Hewson is afraid of blood. At a recent dinner with friends the conversation turned to cesarean sections, and the next thing the actress knew she had fainted, slipped from [...]

Our May issue normally marks the end of the academic year, but there's been nothing normal about this year for any of us. As I write this letter in late [...]

ALEXANDER CALDER'S NEW ENGLAND HOUSE HELPED BIRTH HIS GENIUS. A NEW BIO OFFERS A PEEK INSIDE. In 1938 two friends threw themselves a birthday party in Roxbury, Connecticut. FORTY, FIT, [...]

The article discusses controversy over a collection of paintings and other art works supposedly by artist Frida Kahlo. The collection's owners, Carlos and Leticia Noyola of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, say the collection is authentic and derives from a woodcarver who worked for Kahlo's husband. However, a group of art dealers and other art authorities contend the Noyola's items are phony.

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Steve Carell is stepping into the kinds of roles that made tom hanks famous. It was once easier to make a career out of playing nice guys. [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff After years in prison, Stacey Lannert explains why the man who abused her had to be stopped. As a young girl, Stacey Lannert adored her father. He [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff When Danish director Susanne Bier delivered her acceptance speech at this year's Golden Globe Awards, she left the audience speechless. Literally. Accepting her award for best foreign-language [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Chelsea Handler isn't just a trash-talking comic. She's a bestselling author, talk-show host, and money machine. Chelsea Handler is onstage at a New Jersey concert arena, complaining [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff In Wretches & Jabberers, we see Chammi, a Sri Lankan man with autism, typing that it is 'killingly hard to figure out' why he sometimes can't control [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Four new friends sit around a table at an outdoor cafe in Helsinki, typing on handheld devices. Shyly, Tracy sends Henna a message asking if she might [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Karen Abbott's biography of the burlesque icon rescues her story from the fuzzy musical outlines of Gypsy. A century before Toddlers and Tiaras, Rose (nee Louise) and [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff More than 15 million Americans practice yoga. They do it in 100-degree rooms, they do it in swimming pools, they do it on bikes, they do it [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff You would think a movie inspired by the true-ish story of gulag escapees who walked from Siberia to India would be, if nothing else, emotionally exhausting. But [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Yes, Jim Carrey is a surprisingly good dramatic actor. No, we don't know why he doesn't do it more often. Is his performance reason enough to see [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Tom and Gerri are happily married. How you take that statement--with a disinterested shrug or a disbelieving sneer--probably predicts how you'll react to this utterly ordinary, yet [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff A young woman asks her doctor to look at a mysterious bump on her breast. She unbuttons her shirt, opens her bra, and the doctor diagnoses the [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Grass-fed beef, biodynamic wine, molecular gastronomy, siphoned coffee--it's amazing how much our tastes have changed in just the last few years. Or have they? A writer declares [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Artist Maira Kalman went on a road trip to trace the evolution of democracy. Instead of postcards, she sent this whimsical book. Kalman sees history not as [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff An Ethiopian novel that makes us rethink the tropes of immigrant literature. Yosef Woldemariam came to America from Ethiopia by way of Sudan, first walking through war-ravaged [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff When is a biopic not just a biopic? When, like 'Howl,' it's got poetry in its soul. The movie opens in black and white with a bespectacled [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Jonathan Franzen is a great writer. Should it matter if he's not a great guy? Jonathan Franzen spends most of the three-minute author video for his new [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Who killed Pat Tillman? A film asks instead: who created his myth? Watch just a few seconds of the footage the major news outlets ran nearly nonstop [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Many first-time memoirists are motivated by self-serving desires: to make the world notice them or to make the world like them. Neither can be said of Bill [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff The new Steve Carell comedy is funny. If only it were also dangerous. The movie is called dinner for Schmucks, so naturally the climax happens at a [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Two hot lesbians face serious relationship drama when one starts sleeping with the couple's baby daddy. A sex-starved middle-aged housewife seduces her son's 20-something friend. A horny [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff The server at Otarian, the new vegetarian fast-food chain that bills itself as 'the planet's low-carbon restaurant,' was trying to persuade a customer to try the 'Choc [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow is just a woman who likes to blow stuff up. Just before dawn one morning in July 2008, Kathryn Bigelow was setting up [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff The internet makes periodic, seemingly in-nocuous appearances throughout Jennifer Egan's new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad. In the first chapter, a character considers Googling her [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Two naked people, one a man and one a woman, stand facing each other in a doorway. Halfway up a wall, a naked woman sits on a [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff In Martin Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers, 19-year-old Charles has girlfriend troubles, family troubles, money troubles, and body troubles (he's short, skinny, and morbidly obsessed with [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Women connect food to their hearts. For men, it's a different organ. Kate Moses grew up with a glamorous, self-dramatizing mother who instructed her children to refer [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff A scientist returns from a trip to find a colleague in his house and wearing his dressing gown. The colleague confesses his affair with the scientist's wife, [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff We had spent the day at the Vatican, eavesdropping as tour guides explained how Michelangelo fudged the proportions on the Pieta, and were heading out for dinner [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff The Swedish film let the right One In is set during a Nordic winter so bleak that just watching it practically makes your nose run. The two [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, a comic look at work culture during economic upheaval, was a bestselling National Book Award finalist that [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Elizabeth Gilbert is the embodiment of the phrase 'new BFF.' She gives you a hug the first time she meets you. She has a warm smile, booming [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff The latest cookbook by Mollie Katzen, author of vegetarian bibles The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, includes recipes for spinach lasagna and vegetable tofu stir [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff Zadie Smith's literary criticism is so good, it makes you miss her fiction. When Zadie Smith finished her most recent novel, On Beauty, she drank a bottle [...]

Byline: Jennie Yabroff There's a scene in Judd Apatow's new movie, Funny People, in which George Simmons (Adam Sandler), a famous comedian fighting a terminal illness, makes a pilgrimage to [...]