Radhika Jones

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In Zadie Smith's New Novel, Performance Is the Tie That Binds, and Divides

It has been 16 years since Zadie Smith published White Teeth, becoming, at 24 years old, a standard bearer for contemporary Anglophone fiction. Her fifth novel, Swing Time, comes out Nov. 15. My favorite remains...

By Radhika Jones

A Death In the Family Inspires Two Works of Art

The party scene that opens Ann Patchett’s new novel unspools like a home movie. A lawyer from the L.A. district attorney’s office, Albert Cousins, crashes the christening celebration of baby Frances, second daughter of L.A....

By Radhika Jones

To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad

The magic afoot in Colson Whitehead’s new novel shows itself some 60 pages in, when runaway slaves Cora and Caesar, under the protection of a Georgia abolitionist, descend into what they think is a cellar...

By Radhika Jones

6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of The Underground Railroad

The author of The Underground Railroad, Oprah's new book-club pick, talks about making fiction from history's great atrocity

By Radhika Jones

Blank Verse Under a Big Sky

Technically he’s not our bard, but you wouldn’t know it from the performances that light up the American landscape every summer. How did a playwright who died four years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth...

By Radhika Jones

Review: In Tessa Hadley’s New Novel, Past Is Prologue

The Past unites four grown siblings for a vacation in the country

By Radhika Jones

Memo to Kylo Ren, Re: Your Parents

ALERT: THIS MEMO CONTAINS SPOILERS. DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU (A) HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE SURPRISED IN THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIE OR (B) ARE KYLO RENTo: Kylo Ren From: Concerned Star Wars...

By Radhika Jones

The First Female Person of the Year in Almost 3 Decades

We likely won't have to wait so long for the next one

By Radhika Jones

The House of the Spirits--Evil Ones

Reviewing the Cloud Atlas author’s new book

By Radhika Jones

Review: Paul Murray's The Mark and the Void

What’s so funny about the financial crisis? A lot

By Radhika Jones

Jonathan Franzen's New Adventure

Purity Tyler, the hero of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, has a very contemporary problem: she owes $130,000 in college loans. Purity, who hates her name and goes by Pip, grew up with her eccentric mother...

By Radhika Jones

Review: Louis de Bernières’s The Dust That Falls From Dreams

The guns of August—and what came after

By Radhika Jones

Corliss Unbound: A Collection of Quirky Pieces by TIME’s Inimitable Critic

Richard Corliss's writing for TIME covered much more than the movies

By Radhika Jones

A Little (Heavy) Light Reading

What’s in a name? How to beachify your serious summer reads. Hard Choices Hillary Clinton At No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, Clinton’s account of her years as Secretary of State is...

By Radhika Jones

Collective Memory

In David Carr's hands, the addiction memoir offers a chance to set the record straight

By Radhika Jones
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