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...unreal place in your mind? It's both real and unreal. The pressure of money and ambition and the forces of aspiration and yearning that make up that island also make it into kind of a virtual reality. There's something about Manhattan that's half a concept. People are living inside this concept as much as inside the real territory. But it is also real, and I wanted to capture the texture and the material sense of it - what it is to be on the streets and what it is to enter someone's apartment. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...amnesiac country. We were invented out of whole cloth fairly recently, and we're very dedicated to not looking at the past and very pointed to the future. America is kind of a science fiction novel in a way. Very weak on character and backstory, but very strong in concept and dynamism and cool ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

That's a good question. After all, good deeds shouldn't have to stay within the bloodline, right? Find out why you might want to consider adopting a third (or fourth?) grandma (in concept) for yourself, after the jump...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: "Miss Your Grandma?" | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Helen, whose vapidity and self-satisfaction embody the concept of ignorant bliss, serves as one of two models for Jenny as she contemplates her future life. The other is her bookish teacher, Ms. Stubbs, played by Olivia Williams (who essentially reprises her role as Rosemary Cross in another coming-of-age classic, “Rushmore?...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'An Education' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...went through hip-hop. I lived it. These kids just learned it. They learned it from TV. Their neighborhoods aren't the same as our neighborhoods were. Their problems aren't the same as our problems were. They have a black President! The whole concept of hip-hop has changed. It's become a commodity. (See TIME's top 10 Grammy moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The RZA on The Tao of Wu | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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