For the disaffected hero of "Taipei," drug use is less about changing the world than it is about adjusting to it
I wanted to highlight the Tea Party leader's lies. But playing a Fishbone song for her on the Fallon show backfired
Saturday, Jun 22, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 150A staffer responds to criticisms that the publication doesn't have enough female contributors
Friday, Jun 21, 2013 6:21 PM UTCThe novelist revealed this and more in an AMA on Reddit
Friday, Jun 21, 2013 2:30 PM UTCResearchers claim reading fiction bestows marketable skills. That's not really what it's for ...
Friday, Jun 21, 2013 11:44 AM UTC 18According to an inforgraphic in the Guardian, the LRB has virtually no female contributors
Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 9:27 PM UTC 25Andrew Hudgins' new memoir blends the serious and the silly
Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 7:05 PM UTCSociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 6:52 PM UTC 67In his first adult novel in eight years, the master of modern fantasy tells the story of a lonely, bookish boy
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 9:15 PM UTC 36The leaden "Transatlantic" suggests he's exhausted the themes that made "Let the Great World Spin" so readable
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTCHow "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- Reagan's favorite song -- became the background music of the modern GOP
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 35Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Ellis on Washington, Adams and the months when soldiers and statesmen forged America
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 1:59 PM UTC 15When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 7:30 PM UTC 194From incest to sperm competition and polyamory, anatomy -- not social arrangements -- explain how a species mates
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 44The author discusses the thin line between history and fiction, and how Frederick Douglass anticipated Obama
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 5:00 PM UTCThe novelist wrote an abrupt letter to the Times saying that sexism is worse in theater than it is in publishing
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 3:40 PM UTC 14Conservative media plays by its rules, and bends truth to back whatever argument they’ve decided to make that day
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 2:45 PM UTC 255Al Jazeera is well-funded and doesn't need to make money. But its prospects, here and in Middle East, are uncertain
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 10:00 AM UTCIn the years before World War II, Russian scientists attempted to revive fish and dog heads, and even a human being
Friday, Jun 14, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 22Karen Joy Fowler's funny, powerful novel of human-animal relations finds its ideal audiobook narrator
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 7:00 PM UTCPage 2 of 320 in Books
"Lost Girls": A serial killer's victims
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Marshall Fine: Live from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Monday, July 1
Kris Kross Rapper's Cause Of Death Revealed
Laverne Cox: Singer Sir Ari Gold Talks About His Childhood and Being a Sex Symbol, And He Goes 3D for His Latest Video
Doug Schulkind: Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 208 -- Great Free Music Online
Tragic Molly Death A Wake-Up Call For Festival-Goers
