If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.
Millard Kaufman has a long string of successes, including two Oscar nominations as a screen writer. He tells Jim Fleming why he decided to take on a new kind of writing.
Paul Beatty recommends a novel by German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath.
Larry Watson tells a story about beauty, art, obsession and betrayal in his novel “Orchard.”
British TV Producer Peter Pomerantsev found he was out of his depth when he was invited to move to Moscow to develop a Russian version of the west's popular reality shows.
Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.
Raphael Kadushin is a senior travel writer for Conde Nast magazines, and author of "Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing."
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