It’s Alive! EC Comics Returns Image Date Monday, February 19, 2024 - 10:01 AM Description Oni Press will revive the beloved horror and sci-fi name with new stories starting this summer.
J.G.A. Pocock, Historian Who Argued for Historical Context, Dies at 99 Image Date Tuesday, December 19, 2023 - 1:13 PM Description He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.
J.M. Coetzee’s Best Books: A Guide Image Date Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 12:30 PM Description His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.
Jacques Roubaud, Poetic Master of Form and Whimsy, Dies at 92 Image Date Wednesday, December 25, 2024 - 1:20 PM Description He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.
Jada Pinkett Smith on Will Smith, Chris Rock and Her New Book, ‘Worthy’ Image Date Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 6:44 PM Description In her new memoir, “Worthy,” she answers big questions, poses others to readers and sets the record straight on her marriage to Will Smith.
James Baldwin’s Best Books Image Date Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 9:35 AM Description He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start.
James C. Scott, Iconoclastic Social Scientist, Dies at 87 Date Monday, July 29, 2024 - 3:04 PM Description In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.
James Carlos Blake, Novelist of Outlaw Life, Is Dead at 81 Image Date Friday, January 31, 2025 - 8:07 AM Description His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of life.”
James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86 Image Date Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:31 AM Description Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
Jami Attenberg on Reading and Her New Book, ‘A Reason to See You Again’ Image Date Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 3:00 AM Description “I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”