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Not surprisingly, though, the pace relaxes when Carr reaches his recovery stage; by that point, familiar with the major players and milestones in his life, the reader can relax too. And if he lapses into clichés on occasion (he adores his daughters "madly, deeply, truly"), at other times his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collective Memory | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn't mind the smell of corpses. "A trifle on the sweet side perhaps, a trifle heady, but how infinitely preferable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samuel Beckett: Dead Laughing | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

Since becoming Pope, Benedict has stepped up his so-called "dialogue" with the secular-scientific world. Three months into his papacy he suggested a way to find moral common ground with non-believers, suggesting atheists behave "as if God existed." Benedict even praised Karl Marx in his last encyclical for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pope Who Engages Secularists | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

The Antique Wine Company plans to sell collections from the other seven châteaux - Lafite to Haut-Brion, Latour to Mouton Rothschild - over the next three years. That'll give you time to save up; the Château Margaux collections cost $390,000 each. It may be "God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bordeaux: Best Cellar | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

(2 of 2) narrowed its angle even further and focused on the nail of the big toe, which then got conflated with the crescent moon: a small step for mankind, but a big one for a foot.) Time and again, looking at carved Romanesque capitals and tympana in Catalan churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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