The fashion director at New York Magazine breaks down the hits, misses and total disappointments from what was overall a good fashion week for NYC.

With the advent of "Karl Lagerfeld for H&M" and eminently affordable designers like Diane Von Furstenburg and Tory Burch, Harriet Mays Powell thinks we may have seen the end of […]

In some erudite, parallel-universe version of our world, no earthlings ever form opinions about America's next invasion or diplomatic overture without scrutinizing their atlases, poring over press accounts in seven […]

Imagine a device that would resemble an ordinary book, where 50-100 pages are made of electronic “ePaper” with “old” paper feel texture plus the advantages of gadgets like the Amazon's Kindle: virtual bookshop, subscriptions, etc. You buy every book you want from the eStore and the content is updated on this device. rnrnHere you have the old book reading/feeling experience with the advantages of today’s kindle-like features. Not an eBook but a "feelBook".

Es sobre el período 1970-1990 en Chile. Trata de la historia de un chico que ve transformarse su país y que decide tomar las riendas del destino con sus propias manos. Cuando niño está en una democracia, luego viene el golpe de Estado de Pinochet, y vive su adolescencia y juventud sometido a esa dictadura. hasta que llega la democracia, la cual es una conquista que para lograrse también contó con su participación.

Gay Talese describes the tobacco-filled and liquor-drenched newsrooms of The New York Times in the sixties—where men passed out on typewriters, and no one was quite sure just how the […]

Since growing up in his parents’ tailoring and dressmaking shop in New Jersey, the writer has maintained a taste for family craftsmanship.

The constraints of reality, Gay Talese argues, have turned many great writers away from non-fiction. Yet, with the proper patience and engagement with one’s subject, those bound to the facts […]

Sex, claims Gay Talese, has always been everywhere—it’s just a matter of how one has to go about finding it. Here he explains how, while there have been few changes […]

Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on 'indoor life' have had on the writing process.

The key to a lasting relationship, says Gay Talese, is looking past the 'mating game's' wonted rituals and flowery ambiguities and learning to emphasize mutual freedom and respect.

Gay Talese explains how a childhood spent eavesdropping on conversations in a New Jersey dress-shop and a lingering sense of being an outsider prepared him for the writing life.

Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, takes humor seriously. In his pursuit of getting published in the magazine he submitted over 2,000 cartoons, and since he landed […]

Can you hear me now? The Environmental Working Group (EWG) – a watchdog NGO run by an army of top scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers – released an alarming […]

The head of Kaiser Permanente offers up advice to fellow CEOs.

The CEO of Kaiser is optimistic about the future of U.S. health care.

We need a system that encourages providers to work to cure the sicker people, says Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson.

Healthcare reform is off the ground. What now? Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson outlines the next steps we need to take to arrive at the perfect healthcare system.

George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente believes patients need more access to data and should be rewarded for taking care of chronic conditions.

The CEO of Kaiser Permanente thinks the ideal health care plan would be built around the patient. What we have now is a silent system, he says.