Sure, the caped crusader may look intimidating, but he couldn’t keep Gotham safe without a little help, as new book The Dark Knight Manual reveals
Books
Brontë Bondage: Classic Literature Gets 50 Shades of Grey Treatment
Hating Ms. Maisy: The Joy, Sorrow and Neurotic Rage of Reading to Your Children
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For the past eight years, off and on, I’ve been reading picture books aloud to my children. You read the same book out loud every night for two …
Dark Knight Rides: The Complete History of the Batmobile
A new book, BATMOBILE: The Complete History, goes under the hood and charts the evolution of the caped crusader’s trusted vehicle
Climax of Hunger Games Trilogy Will Be Split Into Two Movies
Lionsgate confirmed that ‘Mockingjay,’ the final film installment of the best-selling book series, will be two films—expected in 2014 and 2015
What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism?
Twelve years later, James Wood’s famous essay holds up. And now we know what came next
The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels
McCormick talks for the first time about the trauma she suffered as a young girl — which led her to pen stories of other survivors. Her latest, ‘Never Fall Down,’ is the true story of a Cambodian refugee
My Book-Buffer for June and July
Form of: seven book reviews in one post!
Season’s Readings: Best Summer Books
Your season-specific, somewhat promiscuous guide to what to read—and how to read it
Remembering Ray Harryhausen: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Jason and the Argonauts
As the grand master of special effect turns 92 on June 29, TIME looks at rare photos from the set of Harryhausen’s favorite movie, Jason and the Argonauts.
Adventures of a Rare (and Not Very Rare) Book Collector
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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books …
Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything
Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed iconic modern romantic comedies and served as the wry voice of multiple generations, died on Tuesday, June 26 of pneumonia, a complication from the acute myeloid leukemia she’d been diagnosed …
Richard Florida on How to Keep America’s Artists From Starving
As his ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ reaches its tenth anniversary, the controversial urban theorist has a plan to keep the artists from starving. It involves a lot more than art