Readings

Smart Alec at the Disco

Steely Dan and the sleazebag seventies, through the ironic lens of Donald Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters.

Just Be Tavi Gevinson: An Interview with the Rookie Editor

On the occasion of her online magazine’s second anniversary—and second publication, Rookie Yearbook Two—the 17-year-old empire operator talks about art, commerce, ’90s nostalgia, and getting off the internet.

What About the Wrestlers Who Didn’t Die?

Pro wrestlers wreck their bodies, ruin their careers, die far ahead of schedule, and David Shoemaker draws from a rich well of their stories in his new book, The Squared Circle. Here are some, however, who improbably, defiantly made it out alive.

The Only Thing Worse Than Bad Memories: Playing and Reading Thomas M. Disch’s Amnesia

Video game scripts have come a long way, but few still boast authors as acclaimed as Disch, whose 1986 adventure is less a game written like a novel than a novel written as a game.