Lev Grossman

Revisiting My First Novel, Warp, Let Me Make Peace With My Former Self

'Time gives you a wonderful, horrible clarity about your own work'

By Lev Grossman September 23, 2016

Foer's Family Drama

In January 2012 there was a Flurry of articles on a new comedy in development at HBO called All Talk. The show was about a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., and the tone would be,...

By Lev Grossman September 12, 2016

Jonathan Safran Foer's Family Drama

The author discusses 'Here I Am,' a geopolitical family saga—his first novel in 11 years

By Lev Grossman August 23, 2016

The 50 Best Video Games of All Time

From arcade classics to recent console hits, these are the 50 greatest games ever

By Alex Fitzpatrick , John Patrick Pullen , Josh Raab , Lev Grossman , Lisa Eadicicco , Matt Peckham and Matt Vella August 23, 2016

The Death of the Bookstore Was Greatly Exaggerated

For years bookstores have been the repository of, along with books, a lot of highly romantic feelings. They crop up in fictional settings rather more often than their retail peers; the list of examples is...

By Lev Grossman June 30, 2016

Here’s How PewDiePie Reinvented Fame

How YouTube celebrity PewDiePie reinvented fame

By Lev Grossman May 26, 2016

The Geniuses Who Tracked Down the Gene

The story of genetics has a long line of protagonists, but the most winning of them is the first: a shy, neurotic Augustinian friar named Gregor Mendel. Born in 1822, the son of two Silesian...

By Lev Grossman May 19, 2016

The Writer Geoff Dyer Finds Trouble In Paradise

Geoff Dyer is often bored; in fact he's surpassingly eloquent on the subject of his own boredom. He's bored following the footsteps of Paul Gauguin in Polynesia. He's bored amid the splendors of Beijing's Forbidden...

By Lev Grossman May 12, 2016

Don DeLillo Dances With Death in His New Novel

Zero K follows a reclusive billionaire who aims to fight death

By Lev Grossman May 5, 2016

The Fall of Theranos and the Future of Science In Silicon Valley

The situation exposed weaknesses that might indicate a systemic problem

By Lev Grossman May 5, 2016

What Virtual Reality’s Past Reveals About its Future

The technology has a bad rap as simply a novelty

By Lev Grossman April 7, 2016

Apple Vs. the FBI: Here's Who Really Lost

One of the more compelling institutional cage matches in the past few years, Apple vs. the FBI, ended in anticlimax March 28. The FBI had been asking for Apple's help in accessing data on an...

By Lev Grossman March 31, 2016

iPhone Debate Ends in Stalemate

The fight is far from over, but here's where things stand

By Lev Grossman March 29, 2016

Here's the Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook

The chief executive of the world's most powerful tech company on your privacy, America's security, and his fight with the FBI

By Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman March 17, 2016

Inside Apple's FBI Fight

In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption

By Lev Grossman / Cupertino, Calif. March 17, 2016

Satya Nadella Is Making Microsoft Cool. No, Seriously

2016 according to the CEO of the newly hot giant

By Lev Grossman December 21, 2015

How J.J. Abrams Brought Back Star Wars

Inside the making of The Force Awakens

By Lev Grossman December 3, 2015

John le Carré: A Most Elusive Man

Reviewing his new biography by Adam Sisman

By Lev Grossman November 5, 2015

The World According to John Irving

Reviewing his new novel Avenue of Mysteries

By Lev Grossman November 5, 2015

Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy’s Holy Grail

Start-ups are behind the new push

By Lev Grossman October 22, 2015

The Great Ad-Blocker Battle

Our attention is just a pawn in the great game of Silicon Valley

By Lev Grossman October 8, 2015

R.L. Stine Finally Has a Movie After 400 Million Books Sold

The Goosebumps author opens up about a new adaptation

By Lev Grossman October 8, 2015

Lives Come Undone in The Clasp

A new novel from Sloane Crosley

By Lev Grossman October 8, 2015

Another Book About Wizarding Boarding School

Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On Is Like Harry Potter Turned Inside-Out

By Lev Grossman October 1, 2015

The Man Who Would Be Jobs

Michael Fassbender stars in a new biopic

By Lev Grossman August 27, 2015

Kate Beaton on How to Make It as a Cartoonist

The author discusses princesses, ponies and writing her first children's book

By Lev Grossman and Diane Tsai July 7, 2015

Harper Lee's Second Success

Her new novel, out July 14, is already a hit

By Lev Grossman June 25, 2015

The Old Answer to Humanity’s Newest Problem: Data

Inside TIME’s Answers issue

By Lev Grossman June 25, 2015

Video Games in the Age of Cell Phones

There’s a science to why you’re hooked, and these guys have cracked it.

By Lev Grossman June 11, 2015

The Dreamer Team

The lives of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

By Lev Grossman May 28, 2015

The Iron Man Challenge

An inside look at the Epic Struggle to build a robot that looks like us

By Lev Grossman May 28, 2015

Good Tech Gone Bad in Hollywood

The threat of robots destroying humanity has a long history in movies. What’s new is that now it’s actually happening

By Lev Grossman May 21, 2015

Review: Life After Life After Life

Kate Atkinson’s grand design in A God in Ruins

By Lev Grossman May 7, 2015

The Dune Abides

Frank Herbert’s iconic work turns 50

By Lev Grossman April 30, 2015

Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron Introduces the Cloud-Based Villain

Joss Whedon's super-sharp writing elevates the newest Marvel film beyond the pack

By Lev Grossman April 29, 2015

Death by Drowning.

Erik Larson revisits the Lusitania disaster

By Lev Grossman March 26, 2015

What Becoming Steve Jobs Gets Wrong

Dueling biographies fight over the story of Steve

By Lev Grossman March 25, 2015

Review: Little Miss Sunshine Girl

A spooky YouTube series migrates to print

By Lev Grossman March 19, 2015

Review: The Sad Guys of World Gone By

Dennis Lehane's hero is a melancholy mobster

By Lev Grossman March 19, 2015

Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk

A gorgeous memoir by a woman who trained a goshawk

By Lev Grossman March 12, 2015

Review: Barry Strauss’s The Death of Caesar

Revisiting his assassination

By Lev Grossman March 5, 2015

Review: The Buried Giant Is an Arthurian Epic

It’s been 10 years since Kazuo Ishiguro’s last novel

By Lev Grossman February 26, 2015

Unromantic Comedy

If you've read Nick Hornby--he wrote About a Boy and the iconic High Fidelity, among other novels--then you'll recognize his voice right away: affable, funny, light but with a signature wistfulness. It's back for the...

By Lev Grossman February 26, 2015

Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman Will Realign the Literary Universe

Expect Harper Lee's unexpected new book to forever change the way we read To Kill a Mockingbird

By Lev Grossman February 3, 2015

Review: The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The Sexual Liberation of a False Saint

A mesmerizing story gets little narrative flair

By Lev Grossman January 15, 2015

What Sony’s Hackers Know

In cyberwar, information is a weapon--and our culture is the battlefield

By Lev Grossman December 22, 2014

#AskTIME Subscriber Q and A: Lev Grossman

Welcome to TIME Subscriber Q&A, with TIME writer Lev Grossman, who wrote this week's cover story about Mark Zuckerberg's bring Internet to the world. To read the full post, you need to be a subscriber....

By Lev Grossman December 5, 2014

The Man Who Wired the World

Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade to put every single human being online

By Lev Grossman December 4, 2014