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Midnight in Peking: Has Paul French Solved a 75-Year-Old Murder?
On a frigid winter morning in 1937, an old man walking near the Fox Tower of Peking’s crumbling city wall discovered the body of Pamela Werner, a 19-year-old English student. She had been bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed, her …
The Illustrated Life: Top 10 Graphic Memoirs
To celebrate Alison Bechdel’s highly anticipated new release, Are You My Mother?, TIME looks back at other unforgettable autobiographical comics
Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet’s Prize-Winning HHhH
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my …
Prize Fight: Why I’m Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year
I’m not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It’s probably just because I’m a weird person. …
The Week Ahead: One, Two, Three Shades of Grey
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
It’s 150 Shades of Grey Now
The first book in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, a series of NSFW novels by …
Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
Mark Leyner sure does. His first novel in 15 years proves he is still a mad genius.
Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes Can’t Stop to Talk
TIME spoke with the author of Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss mid-stride about trekking around the globe and surviving 50 marathons in 50 days.
Eye Jabs & Head Raps: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos of The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges didn’t invent physical farce and extreme slapstick. But they were the best at it. What began as a Vaudeville act in the 1920s made the leap to television and film, keeping audiences laughing for six decades. In …
The Week Ahead: Let’s Hear It For the Girls
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
Girls premieres Sunday at 10:30 pm on HBO
One of the year’s most eagerly anticipated and ubiquitously …
How We All Can Be ‘Creative Types’
Best-selling author Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was A Neuroscientist and How We Decide) found himself increasingly drawn to the mystery of creativity a few years ago. “We live in a world surrounded by our own inventions, and yet we …
The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: April 2–April 8
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Full Steam Ahead
We seem to have taken the “never let go” thing pretty seriously because Titanic is …
Book Excerpt: Diving Deep into Portland’s Enchanted Forest
An exclusive look at Under Wildwood, the new novel in the best-selling series by Decemberists front man Colin Meloy
