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...book, Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, is a pop-culture take on one of society's most painful topics. Focusing on 20 famous figures who took their own lives, Death Becomes Them provides the backstories behind the tragic and manic last days of icons ranging from Kurt Cobain to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Equally sad and shocking, Strauss's profiles help fans and cult followers better understand how these brilliant, tortured souls crossed the line from depression to self-destruction. TIME talked to Strauss about what it was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...dedicated to resisting the U.S. and its allies, his ideology of global jihad against the "far enemy" (the U.S.) has failed to supplant the more pragmatic Islamist movements such as Hamas, Hizballah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, all of whom limit themselves to clearly defined national objectives, eliciting increasingly manic denunciations from al-Qaeda's cave dwellers. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden Failed | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

This reset moment will not last for long, let alone forever. History and the zeitgeist keep moving. It's a good bet that the 2020s will be fully roaring, the dawn of yet another thrilling, manic era of hypercapitalist easy money and overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reset Economy: What Can We Learn From the End of Excess? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

...girl is doing good and the dad loves me, man!" Arguello said, bursting into his manic Yogi Bear laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...search of pure high-octane kitchen action, though, In the Kitchen is unfortunately a bit of a drag. Although they resemble each other in their manic masculinity, Ali's kitchen turns out to be the inverse of Bourdain's, and it demonstrates exactly what made Kitchen Confidential so appealing. The Bourdainian kitchen is not a muddle. It is in fact the last redoubt of clarity in a muddled world. Hot and filthy it may be, but it's the place where all the stuff that bedevils the modern human's attempts to pull together a stable, clear identity - race, class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chef Lit: Kitchen Writing | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

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