Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
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Haunted Air: Spooky, Vintage American Halloween Photos
Greil Marcus used the phrase “old, weird America” when writing about Bob Dylan. But we don’t know a better way to describe these anonymous Halloween photos. Old and weird? Check.
My Five Things: Cartoonist and Illustrator Seth
Whether it’s his cover illustrations for The New Yorker, his Criterion Collection art, his work on the 25-volume Complete Peanuts series or his standalone books Wimbledon Green and the just released The Great Northern Brotherhood …
Forward Run to this Wolcott Gibbs Anthology
“The problem, of course,” David Halberstam once wrote, “is that good writing demands irreverence, skepticism, a certain edge.” The peaceful, content and kind, in other words, can do something else. Which is a fine way to …
NBA Legend Jerry West Opens Up In New Autobiography
Two years ago, Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, set a new standard for sports memoirs. For too long, jock books were content with being bland recollections of an athlete’s achievements. Designed to cement a legacy, they bored …
Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy
I didn’t read Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life because I’m a Dickens guy. I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was …
Chime Not Shine: The National Book Awards Nominates The Wrong Book
Well, this is awkward. When the National Book Foundation announced its nominees last week for the Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards, they accidentally picked a book called Shine when they really …
Animal Expert Jon Katz On How To Find Peace When Pets Die
It might seem silly or insignificant to some, but for millions of animal lovers like Jon Katz, the death of a pet can be devastating. In his new book, Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die, Katz explores the complex feelings of grief that can arise upon an animal’s death. From his farm in upstate New York, Katz talked to TIME about …
Video: Colson Whitehead’s Favorite Pop Culture Zombies
It’s not hard for New Yorkers to picture zombies,” says author Colson Whitehead. “You take the subway, you go to Whole Foods, and you’ve got a series of stock characters to draw from.
Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace
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
All-TIME 100 Nonfiction Books
Politics and war, science and sports, memoir and biography — there’s a great big world of nonfiction books out there just waiting to be read. We picked the 100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the …
Top 10 Ways Harry Potter Will Live On
For the Boy Who Lived, the story is now over. But fear not: TIME takes a look at the ways the wizard will live on even after the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” credits roll
26th Anniversary of JAWS – Memories from Martha’s Vineyard
A new book published on the anniversary of JAWS’s release shares hundreds of rare photographs taken by local Martha’s Vineyard participants and bystanders