Readings

As her masterwork Kontakthof plays to sold out audiences in Toronto this week, we reconsider the legacy of the great, late German choreographer Pina Bausch.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, like Fernando Pessoa, knows that memoir isn’t about memory but about the failures thereof, and the pain of confronting your old self as a stranger.

Beyond the blood and dragons and boiled leather, Game of Thrones (and the novels on which it’s based) may just contain the most varied, often celebratory depictions of characters with disabilities in all of pop culture.

“Free speech” allows citizens to speak truth to power; it also allows Facebook users to proclaim that “Elliot Rodger is an American Hero.” As Paula Todd writes in Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies, and Predators Online, free speech can be a formidable censor.