The Bridges of Madison County, first a book and then a film, remains controversial in popular culture, with people divided into vehement fans and foes of the sentimental love story. Written in 1992 by novice Midwestern writer Robert James Waller, the...

The Bridges of Madison County is a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a lonely Italian war bride who engages in an adulterous affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who has come to...

I HAVE glanced at Robert James Waller's booklet The Bridges of Madison County just long enough to be able to put it down without bringing up my dinner. But I can see what, besides its sheer sticky sappiness, made it sell millions of...

Of course, families that stick together don't always have an easy time of it. The Bridges of Madison County, based on Robert James Waller's much-maligned but enormously popular novel, focuses on a four-day affair between an Iowa farmer's wife and a traveling National...

Nobody bats an eye when a tourist heavy with cameras appears along the road in this tiny rural town. More than a decade after the movie "The Bridges of Madison...

1. Angkor You won't find any secret artifacts entombed in temples here like the one Lara Croft (played by Angelina Jolie) discovered in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but Cambodia's maze of ancient temples, dating back earlier than the 9th century is sure...