Pulitzer in Fiction
+Books | April 18, 2012

Prize Fight: Why I’m Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year

By Lev Grossman

The Pulitzer board failed to select a winner of the fiction award for the first time in 35 years. Thank goodness.

+Books | October 5, 2011

Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace

By Claire Suddath
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Nicolle Wallace knows politics. Her new novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman plucked from relative obscurity became Vice President of the United States

Tuned In
Tuned In+June 4, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: The Soul of Twit

By James Poniewozik

This week’s column in the print TIME looks at Twitter as a literary art form. No, seriously. With the emergence of satirical accounts like @BPGlobalPR, which has mercilessly flogged BP over the Gulf oil spill, the fake-Twitter account has come into its own as Twitter’s indigenous genre of fiction. What is Twitter lit good for? [...]

+Books | October 16, 2005

All-TIME 100 Novels

By Lev Grossman
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Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.