Here & There

By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Alain L. Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel

DID SARTRE DATE TWINS? Hard to imagine why the French find Americans crass. Just last week the two lands almost mirrored each other. Parisians dedicated a street corner to novelists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and Chicagoans dedicated a corner to a literary giant of their own: Hugh Hefner.