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Urban fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic fantasy. Call it what you will, but the immensely popular genre most recently featured in HBO's True Blood owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton, who launched her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character 15 years ago. Hamilton has since started another series, starring faerie queen Merry Gentry. She talked to TIME about sex in America, acting as therapist for fans, and why she became a Wiccan...
...save the company, out of a job. "We can acknowledge that we have been in contact with a variety of federal officials for some time during this extraordinary and difficult economic period," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson. "We have said publicly, in comment to the Michigan [congressional] delegation's call for support of the industry, that we believe the Federal Government should consider all of the tools available to it - some recently enacted - to support industries that are in distress and that are essential to the U.S. economy," he said. On Thursday, those efforts got another boost as Governors from...
...Rankings Call it Southern hospitality. Patients in the South and the Midwest gave higher hospital satisfaction scores than Americans in the rest of the country. Of the 40 largest hospital-referral regions in the country, here are the best and worst, according to the proportion of patients in each region who gave their hospitals a score...
...produced by this generation are "not about partition, or the Emergency, or three-generational family sagas written in Oxford English," says New Delhi literary agent Renuka Chatterjee. Instead, the topics are populist and contemporary (college, finding a job, looking for love) and the English is as unpretentious as a call-center cubicle. At the same time, these novels still do what novels have always done: serve as guides in a confusing world. "Suddenly, everything has changed so much," says novelist and publisher Namita Gokhale. "So people use these books to try to find where they're located in all this...
...digital renderings of the Key, a symbol of exile that hangs on the walls of living rooms. The figure of Handala, cartoonist Naji al-Ali's iconic homage to the Palestinian refugee, adorns many social networking profiles. This year, to mark the sixtieth year of exile, what the Palestinians call the Nakbah - or "disaster" in Arabic - entire days in chatrooms and forums were dedicated to discussing the Nakbah and what it means today. "Traditionally for Palestinians, the Nakbah has been about looking back in sorrow," says Nabulsi. "But what I am seeing among younger people now is that they...