The Missouri Review

How do you celebrate a 400-year anniversary? It is certainly not the paper anniversary, or the silver. But 40 million euros will do the trick. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ Don Quixote of La Mancha, the government of Castilla-La Mancha in southern Spain is spending 40 million euros ($48.2 million) on a tourist [...]

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Jonathan Safran Foer is the new little black dress. He seems to go well with everything and he is everywhere. The film version of Foer’s first novel, Everything is Illuminated–published when he was a mere 25–is now in post-production and due for release September 16, starring Elijah Wood. It may be difficult to separate Wood [...]

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