SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather all your friends around the wireless and watch last night’s Boardwalk …
Boardwalk Empire
Galley Girl: A JFK Resurgance and a Year in Heaven
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
CAMELOT LIT
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 was the Baby Boomer generation’s 9/11, as author …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Generation Gap
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish playing that fortuitously instructive board game with your ersatz family and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
As I’ve mentioned in these reviews before, Boardwalk Empire is …
Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
A high-school classics teacher sends a manuscript of her first novel to an agent in Manhattan, …
Jack and Jill: What An Awful Drag
More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. It made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing, mainly practiced by people eager to express ugly feelings …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, stop listening to that pay-wireless boxing match and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Much of all drama boils down to whether a character will do the right thing. What complicates …
Amazon Makes Like a Publisher With Kindle Singles
Correction appended: November 9, 2011
In January, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online bookseller, launched its Kindle Singles sales campaign. The mini-eBooks were specifically designed for the company’s popular eReader …
Top 10 Racing Games
To mark the arrival of this fall’s fantastic Forza Motorsport 4, TIME takes a look at the best driving games around.
Boardwalk Empire Watch: I Confess
Let’s try something different this week. This recap will not be a recap. We’re at about the halfway point of Boardwalk Empire season 2, and at the end of the six episodes HBO sent me in advance. “The Age of Reason” advanced …
TIME Readers Sound Off on the All-TIME 100 Songs
Over the past five days, hundreds of readers have left comments on our All-TIME 100 Songs list about what we did right and (mostly) what we did wrong. Here’s what some of our Twitter followers had to say and their suggestions for songs that we should have included:
Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh?
The Pirates star takes a break from kid-centric movies to honor his old pal Hunter Thompson with this louche, fitfully appealing comedy
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Not Out of the Woods Yet
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, have your servant bring the cocoa and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
In a quote that you are probably tired by now of hearing critics like me repeat, playwright Anton Chekhov …
All-TIME 100 Songs
Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. Here are 100 (unranked) songs of enduring beauty, power and inventiveness