--- description: BOOKS Adventure Time Named for the popular YouTube series that earned her an HBO deal--as well as fans like Pharrell Williams and Shonda Rhimes--Issa Rae's... title: The Culture image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Culture (29 Jan 2015) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 10:49 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 10:49 AM CUT BOOKS Adventure Time Named for the popular YouTube series that earned her an HBO deal–as well as fans like Pharrell Williams and Shonda Rhimes–Issa Rae’s essay collection The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl arrives Feb. 10. BOOKS Laugh Track Set in 1960s London, Funny Girl, High Fidelity author Nick Hornby’s new novel, follows the breakout star of a hit sitcom. The book hits U.S. shelves on Feb. 3. MUSIC Let Me Be Frank Bob Dylan’s first studio album in three years, Shadows in the Night, consists entirely of songs Frank Sinatra once recorded. It’s out Feb. 3. MOVIES Under the Sea SpongeBob SquarePants returns to the big screen for the first time in a decade with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, out Feb. 6. ‘I’M EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT ME TO BE. I’M JUST SOME LATIN THUG WITH A GUN.’ PAGE 56 THE WEEK OF THE GRAMMY AWARDS ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3687290/the-culture-17/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3687290/the-culture-17/"},"headline":"The Culture (29 Jan 2015)","datePublished":"2015-01-29T10:49:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:52:25.468Z","description":"BOOKS Adventure Time Named for the popular YouTube series that earned her an HBO deal--as well as fans like Pharrell Williams and Shonda Rhimes--Issa Rae's...","url":"https://time.com/3687290/the-culture-17/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3687290/the-culture-17/","name":"The Culture (29 Jan 2015)"}}]}] ```