A Moral Guide to Online Book Buying

Buying books online is easy, right? Just point and click and get and read. Right? Wrong.

Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts One Through Five

I read pretty slowly. That’s partly because I am literally a slow reader: for some reason inputting text through my eyes is just not a rapid process. But it’s also because I’m Time’s book reviewer, so I have to burn through a couple of books a week as part of my job (which is basically [...]

E.L.E. Now Accepting Applications

One can only imagine the intense nerdiness of the video footage that is even now pouring into Joss Whedon’s inbox, now that he’s accepting applications for the Evil League of Evil. He’ll need welding goggles or a pinhole camera or something. You know, like when you’re observing an eclipse. Anyway.