Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

This month, the Book Club is reading Shirley Hazzard’s “The Transit of Venus.” This fine novel takes its name from an infrequent celestial event wherein the planet Venus passes between the earth and the sun….Read the whole article at The Newyorker

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star. Read the whole article at Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star. Read the whole article at Reuters

I remember fondly the newsday that brought the story of a gaggle of unruly teen-age vandals paying for their misuse of Robert Frost’s historic house by giving reluctant audience to the Frost scholar and poet…Read the whole article at The Newyorker