
'The American' has a distinctly European air
The first sequence of 'The American,' like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue.

The American' has a distinctly European air
The first sequence of "The American," like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue.

Social history: Home comforts
At Home: A Short History of Private Life . By Bill Bryson. Doubleday; 512 pages; $28.95 and 20 .

Loren Feldman is the jester in the court of Web 2.0
Loren Feldman uses sock puppets to criticize the West Coast tech scene and he has ruffled a lot of feathers Tom Foremski Biography Tom Foremski In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger.

George Clooney's 'The American' has a European air
The first sequence of "The American," like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue.

The American' exudes European air in pace and cast
The first sequence of "The American," like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue.

A lot of little
Another entertaining short history of other things. A colleague and I came to blows over this book.

George Clooney's 'The American' has a European air
The first sequence of "The American," like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue.

Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist
Books: I am reading Adam Thorpe's 'Hodd' a fictional account of Robin Hood, alongside David Baldwin's biography 'Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked'. It's fascinating to compare the two treatments.

Adept author provides another unlikely heroine to ponder
Philippa Gregory, author of "The Other Boleyn Girl," continues her saga of the Wars of the Roses with a fictional biography of Margaret Beaufort, grandmother of King Henry VIII.