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A new English-language paperback edition of Parasite Eve comes just in time for summer getaway reading. The editors at Vertical Press haven't weeded out the slew of mistranslations from the original hardcover English edition. But some of these botched phrases - including real puzzlers like "the unreality of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellular Seduction | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

I do. Reading is such a solitary activity that it's rare to get to meet the people who read your books. If left to their own, people will feel like they need to say "I liked your last book." But it's embarrassing for me to hear that, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

There's an English writer named Alan Bennett who makes me laugh. That show Extras with Ricky Gervais makes me laugh. I like that kind of uncomfortable laughter. But when it comes to reading, I'd normally rather read something that was tragic than funny.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

The bigger question is whether the now nine-year-long rise in energy prices is at a definitive end, and to that, Rainwater offers a clearer answer: No way. He began formulating his big oil bet after reading the 1992 book Beyond the Limits, a wonky, statistics-driven--and extremely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Oil Bubble Burst? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

This electronic hoop you have to jump through was invented in 2000 by a team of programmers at Carnegie Mellon University. Somebody at Yahoo! had gone to them, complaining that criminals were taking advantage of Yahoo! Mail--they were using software to automatically create thousands of e-mail accounts very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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