Jennie Yabroff is a staff writer at Newsweek covering books, movies, food, and art.
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High-Concept Desserts from Star Chefs
From pop rocks with an audio track to abstract art drizzled in syrup, restaurants are taking... MORE
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Yoga Memoirs for the Soul
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Movies: 'Another Year' Cure For Commitment Phobias
Tom and Gerri are happily married.... MORE
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Movies: Jim Carrey in 'I Love You Phillip Morris'
The film, based on the true story of a Texas con man who escaped from jail four times to be with... MORE
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Movies: Colin Farrell in 'The Way Back'
You would think a movie inspired by the true-ish story of gulag escapees who walked from Siberia to... MORE
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Anne Hathaway's Breasts Are Way Distracting
Increasingly, nudity has become a self-congratulatory indication of European-style seriousness, an... MORE
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Meatloaf Is Sexier Than You Think
"The Essential New York Times Cookbook," a nearly 1,000-page, bright-red doorstop, proves that when... MORE
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The Immigrant Experience Gone Wrong
Yosef Woldemariam came to America from Ethiopia by way of Sudan, first walking through war-ravaged... MORE
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'The Freebie': One-Night Standoff
Everything is perfect in Annie and Darren’s marriage, except they can’t remember the last time they... MORE
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When Is a Biopic Not Just a Biopic?
The movie "Howl" opens in black and white with a bespectacled poet adjusting his glasses and... MORE
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'The Romantics' Is All Style, No Substance
'The Romantics' is a very pretty movie that has no idea how silly it is.... MORE
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The Frida Fighters
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Jonathan Franzen, the Writer We Love to Hate
So far, critics have been careful to review "Freedom" and not Franzen, almost uniformly praising... MORE
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'Eat Pray Love' and the Too-Talky Romantic Comedy
Film is a visual medium, and the best directors exploit it to tell their stories with an economy of... MORE
