joie de vivre

Podcast and slide show in the New Yorker about Godard, Truffaut and the French New Wave.

Both Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut were journalists that wrote for the cinema publication Cahiers du Cinema before they were film directors. I actually own a copy of "Hitchcock", by Truffaut, an interview/film analysis on Alfred Hitchcock that was published in the '80s.

Holly Brubach's column in the New York Times' Style Magazine

Holly Brubach writes about the challenges on the evolving cultural landscape in China from economic development relevant to the luxury goods market:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/16/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=0&pageName=16brubach&