USA Today Review

from USAToday Disgraced author James Frey rebounds with messy ‘Morning’ Updated 5/16/2008By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY Give the bloodied but clearly unbowed James Frey points for unbridled ambition. His truth-challenged memoir A Million Little Pieces may...

Thai-boxing Transvestite Sleuths Prophet Murder

from the Guardian UK Different beats Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets Listen to Mehmet Murat Somer read from The Prophet Murders  Alternative Istanbuls … Barbara Nadel (left)...

Bacon Brings Most Pork Ever at Auction

from the New York Times Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million By CAROL VOGEL A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to...