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My Thanksgiving involved cooking most of the holiday dinner in Brooklyn and driving it to my mother-in-law’s house in New Jersey: smoking a turkey, cutting it in pieces and foil-wrapping them, and stuffing them into a cooler packed with towels for insulation. It was a job not unlike transporting an organ for transplant, or disposing a …
If you’re thinking about buying books, albums, or DVDs for your loved ones this season, you might want to check out TIME’s free Populist iPad app
Why, Dr. Seuss, of course. But will a new movie adaptation of “The Lorax” speak to a new generation of children?
TIME loved the novel State of Wonder. We talk to its author about her new venture, Parnassus Books.
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It’s not often that an animated children’s special answers a question of broad religious import, but Fox’s Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, debuting Thanksgiving night, pulls it off. Santa Claus, it turns out, came before Jesus. At …
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Soap opera fans suddenly have two fewer things to be thankful for today. Prospect Park, the production company that made an eye-opening deal to rescue cancelled ABC soaps All My Children and One Life to Live, issued a statement …
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The Republican primary candidates debated once again on CNN last night. If you’d like actual political analysis of the event, I’ll send you to my friends at Swampland, but other than some wrangling over military policy and Newt Gingrich’s position on immigration, there seemed to be few momentum-shifting moments. So instead, I invite you …
From Hank Williams to Neko Case, here are the songs that make us both hungry and thankful.
I got a late start on P.G. Wodehouse. When I went out on a book tour earlier this year my wife stuffed a copy of Right Ho, Jeeves into my bag and told me I’d thank her later. At the time I didn’t really know who Wodehouse …
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We’ve traveled over the river and through the woods to find 10 great Thanksgiving scenes
I’m not sure whether the vibe is coming from the Muppets or from Jason Segel, but everyone is really happy on this set. Actually, I’m not sure there’s much of a difference between the Muppets and Segel, the 31-year-old star and …
In this week’s TIME, Joel Stein interviews Diablo Cody (you know, the ex-stripper who wrote Juno) and Jason Reitman (you know, the non-stripping guy who directed Juno) about their new film, Young Adult. The movie, written by …
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Brief spoilers for Sons of Anarchy below:
I’m more reluctant than usual to assess last night’s episode of Sons of Anarchy until we see how this all plays out, and if you saw the final moments of “Burnt and Purged Away,” then …
