Barbara Kingsolver on Flight Behavior and Why Climate Change Is Part of Her Story
The scientist-turned-novelist—whose new book hit shelves this week—spoke with TIME about global warming, the environmental movement and the responsibility of an artist
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David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
Back in 2003, a new virus that would be called SARS jumped from a bat to a civet cat to human beings, eventually infecting thousands and killing nearly 800 people. That’s just one example of the threat that animal microbes can …
Why Wild Animals and Hollywood Don’t Mix
She’s a Dancing Machine: Girl Talk’s 71-Minute Long Music Video
The girl hustles into the ballet studio to the disapproving glare of the dance teacher, and takes her place at the barre. You can tell from the start that she doesn’t belong there among the stern, steely bunheads. Her eyes are …
After The Bomb: Don DeLillo Tells Us What to Fear
The author’s new short story collection, The Angel Esmerelda, slightly erases from memory the past decade and a half of his work.
TIME Recommends: The Trotsky
Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of things. Which underscores …
Weekend Listening: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s Rome
It’s been a little more than a month since the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad and I still can’t get this song out of my head. The show does so many things so well — Southwestern cinematography, unbearably tense pace, …
IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami
Haruki Murakami may be the world’s most popular working literary author. And there is absolutely no logical reason for this.
He’s not an especially nimble writer, and you’d be hard-pressed to pick out a passage of his work …