Since 1957, TIME has been covering Vidal extensively. Here is a small sampling of our writing on his remarkable life and work.
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Reading While Eating for July 31: Turn Up The Music
Today’s links feature a dramatic poetry reading and a dramatic Yelp review reading.
TIME Wins Magazine of the Year at National Magazine Awards
TIME received the top honor as Magazine of the Year at the 2012 National Magazine Awards in New York
Andrew Breitbart, in the Pages of TIME
Conservative blog publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart passed away in Los Angeles; he was 43. Breitbart was profiled in the March 25, 2010 issue of TIME, and the article featured a photo of him in his bathtub, holding a …
Vaclav Havel, Dissident and President, from TIME’s Archives
Rarely do politics and art find such a tempered combination as in Vaclav Havel, the outspoken playwright who inspired revolution in Czechoslovakia and was elected the nation’s first democratic president. Havel was the unlikely …
Report: Most of Us Go Online for No Apparent Reason
We nominate this for Obvious Study of the Week.
Through the Looking Glass: A Tour of the Mirror That’s One of TIME’s Favorite Inventions
We all have an intimate relationship with our bathroom mirrors. No other fixture in our house stares back at us first thing in the morning, when we’re certainly not looking our best. But what if the bathroom mirror could talk …
Who Should Be TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off
As the seasons rise and fall and the calendar pages fall away, the news cycle continues to churn without fail.
Fashion Friday: Rick Perry Goes to Fashion Week and Other Style Scoop
NewsFeed’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion.
Tumblr of the Week: TIME on Tumblr
If you’ll forgive us a bit of self-promotion, we must say that we think TIME’s latest Internet venture is pretty special.
Five Ways to Track Hurricane Irene on Twitter
As Hurricane Irene swirls through the Atlantic and appears on a beeline path for the Carolinas, Twitter has become the ultimate source for real-time information about her wind speed, location and impending direction. Here are the …
‘That Picture Was a Terrible Mistake’: Jane Fonda Sits Down for 10 Questions
Jane Fonda talks men, sex advice and that notorious North Vietnam photograph.