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...But the real story is in the footnotes, in which Franzen laments the state of modern media and confesses his sins as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...We are further north than Edinburgh, but the sky is the uniform grey you see in the East Anglian fens....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...A friend at the Italian embassy could not help but notice after the elections that Italy has 11 consulates across America, nine of them in blue states....
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