Readings

‘The Novel Is Like a Room’—an Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard

The author of My Struggle talks about memory, translating the Bible, and his most epic of autobiographies as an act of “re-staging something that is inside of me.” 

The Adult-Free Utopia

The Maze Runner depicts a world without adults: a giant maze beset by giant monsters. Is it a utopia?

Radical vs. Radicalized

What does one former member of a terrorist group—"the last of the big-time dreamers," as he's called in Claire Holden Rothman's new novel, My October—have to say about civil liberties?

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The Sad Lives of Famous Ghosts

Not everyone's lucky enough to escape their haunts.

The Secret Lives of Dead Pigs

Our corpses react unpredictably when left underwater. Luckily for researchers interested in such things, humans and pigs decompose in remarkably similar ways.

The Internet's First Family

MetaFilter began in 1999 as a sort of humane proto-Reddit. Why did a site for sharing "best of the web" links become a place where strangers help each other in real life in extraordinary ways?

How Predators Get Away With It

Why the Canadian media must do more to challenge its own sexism. And speak out against the abusers in its midst.

I'll Believe Anything

Halloween would be a perfect holiday if not for all the opportunities for other people to trick you like the gullible dummy you are.

Writing What You Know (Or Don't): On Transparent and Orange is the New Black

Jenji Kohan of Orange is the New Black and Jill Soloway of Transparent both see the value in open, inclusive writers' rooms—though maybe not for the same reasons.