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Americans love to hate the Yugo. It has been included on - and topped - many worst-car lists, including TIME's 50 worst cars of all time. In The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History, Jason Vuic details why - despite the book's clever title - the Yugo isn't the worst car ever. Vuic explores how this little East European car that couldn't quickly fell from "Yugomania" glory to being one of the most loathed cars of all time...
...American car buyers who truly do want an appliance. They don't want their cars to be status symbols; they just want to drive from point A to point B. And there's always going to be a slice of Americans who want a bargain. So in the fall of 1985, people flocked to buy them. (See the most exciting cars...
...original version of this article misstated that Raymond Sokolov had been the restaurant critic of the Wall Street Journal for 25 years. Though Sokolov did write often about food for the paper, he was only officially the regular restaurant critic since the fall...
Sokolov is a rarity even among big-paper critics: though he was only officially the Journal's restaurant critic since the fall of 2005, he has written about food for decades, and brought a wealth of cumulative knowledge to the baffling array of weird foods, concepts and trends that a 21st century eater has to face. Critics, even at potent establishments like the New York Times, tend to be younger, and are often former reporters or freelancers who don't have much of a food background. Even those like Jonathan Gold at LA Weekly or Tom Sietsema of the Washington...
...text,' " he said in an interview with Poland's Dziennik newspaper. "I simply want to write a text, which to my best conviction and experience is the closest and most faithful to what surrounds me. It is an experiment, and I do not care what category it will fall into." For his many fans, it may not matter if his works are found in the nonfiction or fiction section of the bookstore. As the writer once suggested, perhaps bookstores need to come up with a new category marked simply "Kapuscinski...