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.

+Television | March 30, 2012

TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale

By Ishaan Tharoor
HBO

We get ready for Sunday’s season two premiere with a board game full of betrayal, intrigue and very confusing rules.

+Books | November 16, 2011

Behind the List: The Making of TIME’s Top 10 Books of the Year

By Lev Grossman
Digital Vision / Getty Images

TIME’s Lev Grossman grapples with the task of compiling his list of the best fiction and nonfiction books of 2011.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 12, 2011

The Problems of Power: George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons

By James Poniewozik

Note: George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, is out in stores today. I received a review copy several weeks ago. TIME’s book critic Lev Grossman has already reviewed it. But since I’ve been covering the [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 20, 2011

GRRM Interview Part 4: Personal History

By James Poniewozik

I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Parts 1, 2 and 3 posted here earlier. This last excerpt didn’t really fit anywhere in my piece on Game of Thrones, because it digresses into [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 19, 2011

GRRM Interview Part 3: The Twilight Zone and Lost

By James Poniewozik

I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Parts 1 and 2 posted here earlier. In this excerpt, GRRM talks about the learning experience of working for a decade in TV, and, yes, about [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 18, 2011

GRRM Interview Part 2: Fantasy and History

By James Poniewozik

I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Part one of the interview posted here Friday. Below, GRRM talks about what he loves (and hates) about fantasy and historical fiction, how he sought to [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 15, 2011

George R. R. Martin Interview, Part 1: Game of Thrones, from Book to TV

By James Poniewozik

If you ever eat a meal with George R. R. Martin, have what he’s having. Martin’s fantasy novels, the source material for HBO’s new Game of Thrones (see a scene from the pilot above), are known for moral ambiguity, complexity and cruelly brilliant plot twists. But they also have fantastic descriptions of food—all that honeyed [...]