People turn up in their hundreds to hear New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton speak. It takes some getting used to.
Eleanor Catton: Life after fame
Tag Archives: disbelief
Modern Living: Judgment of Paris
Americans abroad have been boasting for years about California wines, only to be greeted in most cases by polite disbelief—or worse.
Consumer Technology: What Gadget News to Expect in 2011
First, a disclaimer: unlike some of my tech-pundit peers, I don’t claim to be uncannily prescient.
Outrage: Former Bishop Vangheluwe Downplays Child Abuse
The Belgian Catholic Church must have felt it hit a nadir last year when it had to face harrowing revelations of rampant child sex abuse among its priesthood. However, the church’s reputation is now at a new low, thanks to the ill-judged comments of the disgraced former Bishop of Bruges, who in April 2010 admitted to abusing his nephew
Sport: The Black Dominance
To say that Julius Erving jumps is to describe Beethoven as a guy who wrote music. Dr
Environment: They Lied to Us
In the rolling countryside of southwestern Ohio, the leaves have begun to turn to brilliant reds, ochers and yellows.
Man trapped in "pancaked" hotel in Indonesia
I am at a hotel that collapsed.