Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
If your computer were this week’s issue of Time, you could read a piece I co-wrote with Evan Narcisse of Kotaku on the upcoming retail rumble between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.
I didn’t read Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life because I’m a Dickens guy. I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was …
TIME’s Lev Grossman selects the decade’s finest literature, from a book about dueling magicians to one about dueling family members.
Watchmen is one of TIME’s Top 100 Novels. Book critic Lev Grossman picks nine other graphic novels to join it in the pantheon.
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.
