News - Powered by Yahoo NewsWhat Beached the London Whale? Credit Indice
J.P. Morgan's blown trade, and its $2 billion bill, has everyone's attention. At its core was a bet on an abstruse corner of the credit market. Here's a quick guide to the credit indices that beached the London Whale.
Fri, 11 May 2012 07:13:07 -0700 -
Letters: Adam Smith?s Wa
A reader responds to ?At JPMorgan, the Ghost of Dinner Parties Past? (Fair Game, May 13).
Sat, 19 May 2012 12:00:07 -0700 -
The Broken Towe
Poet Hart Crane was an alcoholic, depressive and gay ? in an era when that could wreck a life. He committed suicide at age 32. That?s a story that could have prompted a biopic before now, save one factor: Crane?s poems are some of the most forbiddingly abstruse in...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:44:58 -0700 -
Lebedev's blog boast about high Standard
There's nothing like self-praise. In his most recent blog Alexander Lebedev reposts a blogpost by a young Russian woman living in London who says he has made the London Evening Standard profitable again and describes the paper as an "easy, pleasant, relaxing evening read". Its business model and editorial policy are "brilliant", she writes, while the Standard's journalism is characterised by ...
Fri, 18 May 2012 17:54:15 -0700 -
'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literatur
"Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008" is a new collection of work by John Leonard, the American critic known as much for his support of emerging writers as for his literary criticism
Sat, 19 May 2012 05:03:37 -0700 -
French chef Iņaki Aizpitarte talks World's 50 Best lis
He's been called everything from a rock-star chef to the unofficial leader and poster boy of the neo-bistro movement in France.
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:08:54 -0700 -
Does Cloud Computing Matter
This is a guest post by Joe Weinman. ??Joe??Weinman is a Senior VP at Telx and the author of??Cloudonomics: The Value of Cloud computing is top of mind for computer geeks, information technology (IT) providers, web and mobile start-ups, and most CIOs (chief information officers), but should other senior executives care??? After all, can CxOs ...
Tue, 01 May 2012 05:44:52 -0700 -
Essays on culture, and the essayis
Tom Bissell's new collection, Magic Hours , covers film, literature, video games, and the author himself.
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:53:59 -0700 -
Sit a spell with funny, thoughtful ?Putnam
Literally, theater critics seldom know of what they speak. We haven?t been Shakespearean kings, faded Southern belles, dying salesmen or witches, wicked or winsome. We?re guessing about the honesty of almost every comic or dramatic situation, based on conditions in our own lives.
Fri, 11 May 2012 21:38:33 -0700 -
Cesare A.X. Syjuco: Thinking And Creating Within And Outside The Bo
MANILA, Philippines - As the forerunner of 'Literary Hybrids,' Cesare A.X. Syjuco's artistic practice can be described as the fusion of literature and visual art that includes styles, techniques and genres. "I am an experimental poet first and a visual artist second," says Syjuco. "But I write mostly for the walls and not for the page, and that's where the boundaries between the two get crossed."
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