On Thursday, Claire Swire, a PR person for a London dot-com, and Bradley Chait, newly hired by a London law firm, e-mailed each other about their recent hot date. Both were at work. Claire ...

In these stories, nuns are made objects of fantasy, lust and loathing. But in more recent fiction, the extent of nuns’ otherness makes for tension and rich characterization. Nuns keep themselves ...

The object of our current affliction is sugar. Who could have imagined that something so innocent, so delicious, so irresistible -- just one glucose molecule (not so sweet) plus one fructose ...