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...moment, five new films that touch on the Nazis' Final Solution - Defiance, The Reader, Good (which prompted TIME critic Richard Schickel to call for a moratorium), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Adam Resurrected - are in theaters. A sixth, Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defiance: Beyond Holo-kitsch | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...colored by the narrator's perspective, the book focuses almost entirely on Vincent and her struggle to define her own illness. The nurses are watching her, the patients are bothering her, the doctors are locked in a power struggle with her. Vincent focuses so much on herself that the reader begins to mistrust the hospital observations she presents as fact. Are the nurses really that cruel, or is she just imagining it? The three treatment centers, hidden by pseudonyms and with very few identifying details, come across feeling like caricatures, the kind of stereotypical hospitals and psychiatric wards that appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman, Three Mental Hospitals | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...York Sun editor Francis Church answers a young reader's letter with the phrase, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Claus | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...hidden in all the four corners of the image so that those interested could make it visible by placing the cursor over each corner to create a roll-over...Unlike an analog photograph where the viewer is told never to touch its center for fear of smudges, the reader is invited into the interior of the digital image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Photography | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...blog vocabulary (CAPTCHA; commenter; troll; vlog), as well as various means of measuring traffic (hits, page views, unique visitors). Surprisingly, the book is congratulatory towards Arianna Huffington without taking a completely hagiographic tone. A must read for blog newbies, of which there are increasingly few. Ironically, the tech savvy reader could probably find much of this information somewhere online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blogging for Dummies | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

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