Readings

In The Thing with Feathers, Noah Strycker writes about the humanity of animals, which raises the question: how do we justify killing them?

Most books about F. Scott Fitzgerald—including Sarah Churchwell's Careless People—are books about Zelda, who was too often reduced to material in her husband's stories. What most people don't know is that she wrote her own novel.

Every week Carl Wilson looks at the events of the past seven days in the mirror of art and culture. This week: The only one who could ever reach us was that sunuvabitch of a preacher man. (Or, The Rotten of the Patriarchs.)

Lars von Trier’s new film is as provocative as it promised to be and as cruel as one would expect. Even still, we give him the benefit of the doubt that he made it for reasons other than tormenting and offending.