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Ian McEwan is a??very successful novelist, but he hasn't let it go to his head. "Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry," he says evenly, stretching out his long frame on a sofa in his London town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden...
Is it news if a??man stands up to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...
As somewhat of a??twixter myself, I assure you that our situation is hardly grave. In fact, our parents could perhaps look to us for guidance. Half our parents are divorced, have financial problems or are stuck in jobs they loathe. Instead of making it seem as if we twixters are spoiled brats, why not praise us as a generation that refuses to fall into the same archaic conventions that have led to so many dysfunctional families? My contemporaries and I don't feel compelled to marry by age 25 and bear children by 27, and we shouldn't have...
...have a??first-class college degree, lots of internships and job experience on my résumé, but at 23 I am back home with my parents, living rent free. I'm sleeping in my old bed with my favorite stuffed animal. I spend my days running errands, doing laundry and making dinner. I have become my parents' "desperate housewife." Young adults my age are overwhelmed by indecision. We have the necessary tools, but we have too many options and not enough options at the same time. We are stuck...
Is Serge Weinberg a??genius or a madman? That question is riveting the gossipy fashion industry and investors in Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR), the $20 billion French company that Weinberg has been transforming over the past decade into a European retail and luxury-goods powerhouse. Three years ago, the CEO won a fierce battle to acquire iconic fashion group Gucci for $9 billion. Then, earlier this year, he allowed Gucci's creative director, Tom Ford, and its chief executive, Domenico De Sole, to walk out the door after the collapse of talks to renew their contracts. Weinberg tapped Robert Polet...