Readings

The Gun As A Karmic Boomerang

Traveling the countryside of the world's second-poorest nation: another in a series of dispatches from the Central African Republic.

The Hero We Need

Wonder Woman, the creation of a polymathic polygamist, wasn't just ahead of her time—as Jill Lepore's new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman shows, she might have been ahead of ours, too.

Next to Godliness

Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood touches on the political roots of yoga in India. What is yoga now, and who has it been for?

The Schadenfreude Economy

Why do we take such delight in the hilarious, satisfying pain of others?

Toronto's City Hall of Horrors

Considering some of the candidates that will be on Toronto's ballots next week, it's only fitting that election season is wrapping up on the cusp of Halloween.

'The Book is Like a Compost Heap': An Interview with David Cronenberg

The filmmaker discusses the process of writing his debut novel, great illiterate screenwriters, and finding beauty in our bodies' grislier corners.

Can I Use Queer Slang If I’m Not Queer?

On apologizing to someone you slighted, whether you can throw shade or not, and how much of a dick you are for not answering all those texts.

Women For The Women and Men of Afghanistan's Police

Under the “patriarchal rule” of Afghanistan, three female RCMP officers trained local police in ethical practices. Terry Gould profiles the work of these women in this excerpt from Worth Dying For.

Drinking the Instagram Poison

A new study says we gravitate towards our most pathetic friends' Facebook pages when we're in a bad mood—but for a really toxic response, try drunkenly leering at the ones who are doing well.

Get Your Tay On: How David Rees’s Aphex Swift Pranks on Pop Phenomenology

The comedian's Taylor Swift/Aphex Twin mashup casts the latter as the naïvely self-expressive one and the former as the master technician—and makes you fantasize about Swift's possible final form.