Only a few more days until the end of the year (and the cut off for the 2006 Oscar season), so of course the movie theaters are glutted with choice new releases. If you have your copy of Bridget Jones' Diary always near the DVD player for easy access, might we suggest checking out Renée Zellweger in Miss Potter. Sort of like a Sex in the City but set during the Victorian era, Zellwegs plays......

The conspiracies are swirling, the evangelical Christians are frothing at the mouth, it can only mean one thing: Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code opens this weekend. Will you get sucked in to the Hollywood thriller madness? It's not even Memorial Day yet but Gothamist already has summer blockbuster fever. In case you've been living under a Dan Brown-free rock, The Da Vinci Code is an adaptation of Brown's best selling novel about a series......

Thank you, New York Times, for giving us some Franco Moretti. He is featured in the Times because of his idea of "text-free literary scholarship" which would involve analyzing all books that have been (and are) published as data points, guessing that things like gender shifts, the elevation of the novel, the gentrification, etc., are part of the same literary cycle. Next up for literature grad students: Brushing up on your Powerpoint skills. As for......

Only in the nutty world of Italian family–run businesses can a once high flying billion dollar long–life milk operation suddenly be on the brink of bankruptcy, needing to get rid of the family and bring in a turnaround specialist whose nickname is from a Quentin Tarantino film. Enrico Bondi, the new chairman of stricken Italian corporation, Parmalat, is nicknamed "Mr. Wolf" by the Italian media for his ability to "clean up" after problematic Italian businesses.......