Classics cornerF Scott FitzgeraldF Scott Fitzgerald's picaresque memoir reflects the American obsession with the automobileIn the summer of 1920, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, three months married, decided to flee the ennui of the New England noon, and so they fired up their dilapidated car and embarked on a mock odyssey from Connecticut to Alabama to rediscover the "biscuits and peaches" of Zelda's youth. Documented in The Cruise of the Rolling Junk, their hapless but good-natured picaresque is punctuated by moments of comedy, despair and mortal peril, in which the car proves to be every bit as recalcitrant and impulsive as its passengers. Read More...
MediaThe Heat is onCould the glossy magazine's latest obsession with 'skinnies' actually do some good, asks Emily WilsonOne of the many ways in which I grate upon my boyfriend's nerves is by providing a running commentary on the fake boobs, lips, eyes and bottoms of the women who walk on to our television screen. He could not be less interested, and yet I feel compelled to inform him that Teri Hatcher has definitely had something done to her forehead - it doesn't move! Read More...
The ObserverLife and styleNothing to do? Frustrated? Can’t summon the energy for even the smallest task? Fret not, says Elle Hunt. There’s a point to boredom, and it can offer us a chance to shape our own lives
I remember my first experience of boredom as vividly as my first kiss. The recollection is so clear I thought I must have been at least seven years old. Actually, my mother tells me, I was only three or four, which makes being bored my earliest memory. Read More...
