He’s been dubbed “The George Clooney of the Vatican,” and now Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the dashing, blue-eyed private …
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Reading While Eating for July 10: Cookies ‘n’ Colliders
Today’s links include a monstrous photo of Nic Cage and Cookie Monster spoofing “Call Me Maybe.”
Cristianismo Hoy: Christianity Today to Publish in Spanish
One of America’s most prominent Christian publications is planning to launch a Spanish language edition to take advantage of the booming Latino evangelical population.
Twit Lit: 14 Authors We Wish Were on Twitter
Novelist Jennifer Egan is teasing us with her latest work, the short story “Black Box” — slowly releasing it in 140 character bursts on Twitter. And that got us thinking: what other authors — living or dead — would we like to …
Vaclav Havel, Dissident and President, from TIME’s Archives
Rarely do politics and art find such a tempered combination as in Vaclav Havel, the outspoken playwright who inspired revolution in Czechoslovakia and was elected the nation’s first democratic president. Havel was the unlikely …
Who Should Be TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off
As the seasons rise and fall and the calendar pages fall away, the news cycle continues to churn without fail.
A Little Late to the Party: Al-Qaeda Magazine Pokes Fun at Anthony Weiner
We may be at war, but we still laugh at the same jokes.
Anthony Weiner: Once a ‘Real-Life Bachelor’ in the Pages of Cosmo
It would seem that Congressman Anthony Weiner is no stranger to female attention. As it turns out, a decade and a half ago, Cosmopolitan magazine dubbed Weiner one of their honored “101 Gorgeous Real-Life Bachelors.”
Operation Cupcake: British Spies Hack Al-Qaeda’s Magazine to Replace Bombs With Cupcakes
Molotov cocktails? More like mojito cupcakes.
Al Qaeda’s New Women’s Magazine: Guns, Facials and Niqabs
Al Qaeda has designed a new U.S.-style women’s magazine that, according to the Atlantic, “offers home and beauty tips alongside testimonials from the wives of suicide bombers and female jihadists.”
The New Frost/Nixon: Naomi Campbell/Vladimir Putin
Frost/Nixon, Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein even Katie Couric/Sarah Palin are some of the great or exposing interviews in the age of modern media. Supermodel grilling Russian prime minister? Not so much. (Via the Guardian.)
57 Years of Playboy, Available Instantly Via Playboy Hard Drive
What would you pay for a copy of every issue of Playboy magazine ever printed? How about $300? (via Techland)