The First Modern Woman

from DailyLit Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman by FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY Madame de Staël has been made available for free through January 2010 thanks to the sponsorship of Diane von Furstenberg. Diane read the book recently and liked it so much that she...

Kubert’s Gallery of Heroes

from The New York Times A Gallery of Heroes, Up for Sale By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES Joe Kubert, a comic book artist since 1938, has little interest in the accumulated work of his last seven decades; his focus is on new projects, he said recently. But comic book fans who...