Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is TIME's book critic and its lead technology writer. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Magicians and The Magician King. He is chaotic good.

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Sure, When Britney Shaves Her Head, It’s News. But When I Do It…

I just had to say that, and now I’ve said it, and we can all move on.

Image Dump: Of Interest to Nerds With Eyes

This post will strain my primitive HTML skills to the very breaking point.

Webcomics are the New Blogs: The PvP Edition

I’m a late convert to PvP, which has been online since, god, like 1998 or something. I’ve always been a big Penny Arcade fan, and Tycho made fun of PvP in his newsposts, and I just never got around to reading it. Then I realized that they’re all pals, and Tycho was just taking the [...]

The Weekend in Nerd Cinema

Featuring two movies I’m definitely going to see five years from now when they’re being rerun on basic cable for the 90th time.

Bad Tech Blogger No Donut

This rant at Gizmodo is right about gadget-bloggers, and technology journalism in general. It’s also pretty amusing.

The RFID Epidemic

I can’t help but think that the whole RFID tag phenomenon is just going to get weirder. You know, those miniature data tags that are getting stuck in everything. Hit ‘em with a radio signal and they ping you back with a tiny scrap of info. Companies like Wal-Mart stick them in products to help [...]

Obligatory Valentine’s Day-Related Post

I’m not doing one. I’m not feeling it. I’ll leave it to someone else to make fun of Google’s L-less Valentine’s Day logo. (Googe responds to the controversy here.)

Hot Hot Hot Virus-on-Virus Action

I find computer viruses endlessly fascinating. This is partly because as a smug, self-satisfied Mac user, I don’t see them very often. It’s also because my first cover story at Time was about the Love Bug, the 2000 megavirus that at the time seemed like the harbinger of the coming cyberapocalypse. (I still don’t see [...]

Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill

I reviewed it. I reviewed it here.

Spider-Man: We Always Hurt the One We Love

Bookslut points me to this — to all appearances — justifiably savage review of Spider-man: Reign #3. The Reign mini-series is set 35 years in the future, with a middle-aged Spidey — yaar, spoilers — mourning the death of his beloved Mary Jane. (There’s a 10-page preview from the first issue here.) What killed Mary [...]

In Other News, World Almost Ends

I know I’m coming late to this story, but is it intriguing to anyone else that someone or -ones tried to kill the Internet last week? Last Tuesday, at 5:30 in the morning, a massive denial of service attack was directed at the root servers that route traffic on the Internet. The Internet did not, [...]