Readings

Underground Citizenship

The Canadian government will soon offer financial incentives for those who snitch on underground business owners. But as Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book makes clear, under-the-table organizations and workers can be the lifeblood of their communities.

Author Tributes After Alice Munro's Nobel Prize Win

Following yesterday’s announcement that Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate for literature, we invited some of her fellow authors to tell us what they love about her stories, and how she's influenced their own work.

Tommy Wiseau and the Audacity of Stupid

As The Disaster Artist, the new book by Wiseau’s The Room co-star Greg Sestero shows, sometimes the only thing separating poetry and idiocy is the strength of the artist’s conviction—demented and delusional as it may be.