The New Republic

Love TodayBy Maxim BillerTranslated by Anthea Bell(Simon and Schuster, 217 pp., $23) READ MORE >>

The Boys in the Trees By Mary Swan (Holt Paperbacks, 224 pp., $14) READ MORE >>

About a week ago the AP wrote about a new, ecologically-friendly alternative to burial or cremation: dissolving bodies in lye. The process, which is called alkaline READ MORE >>

Trendwatching.com, a company which produces annual trend reports, recently reported that READ MORE >>

           Last week's issue of New York had this exciting piece about "Skyfarming": READ MORE >>

New York magazine's editors asked four architects to come up with plans for the empty plot on Canal and Varick that faces their office. It's no surprise that one of the submissions wasgreen-themed. (The surprise would be if one of them wasn't.) READ MORE >>

Taking things from trashcans is a criminal offense. At least it was for READ MORE >>

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The hot pepper! She's been dosing since 1992. "It keeps my metabolism revved up, and it keeps me healthy," Hillary told 60 Minutes. Tara Parker-Pope says nutritionists tend to agree.  --Francesca Mari  READ MORE >>

You know the campaign is a big deal when the health fluff pieces turn to it for stuffing. Are your politics rooted in your genes?” CNN asks. In so far as genes determine the way we think, yes! I guess this means that future candidates are gonna start mining our genetic codes like polling data. Thank goodness Huckabee doesn’t believe in evolution! --Francesca Mari READ MORE >>