empire
The Empire of Harmlessness: Hello Kitty at 40
Maria Bustillos · 10/31/14 01:46PMTom Scocca · 09/18/13 12:37PM
The Man Booker Prize will be open next year to all fiction writers in the language called "English," even those from nations that forcibly unyoked ourselves from the Queen's jurisdiction. Power grab or final capitulation of failed empire? Either way, tough break for Hilary Mantel, up against Jennifer Weiner from now on.
Amazing Colour Footage of Street Scenes of London in 1927
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 05/12/13 09:58AMThe film was shot by Claude Frisse-Greene, an early British pioneer of film.
More Oil Found Off Falkland Islands
Jeff Neumann · 12/03/10 07:41AMYou Are Part of the Growing Olsen Empire
Alex Carnevale · 10/26/08 04:30PMThere's something gnawing at you long after you have read Ginia Bellafante's profile of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's not the fact that they won't be interviewed together, it's not that they employee 18 people in their Dualstar company, and it's certainly not that Ashley is the sadistic mastermind of the two. No, it's the fact that the Olsens say they want to build "a true America brand." If these two aim to achieve world domination through marketing, what exactly do they want with America?The details of the Olsens' forward march don't come until the end of the NYT piece, but it's important to digest every word: