Readings

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.

Salvage Operations: In Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

A conversation about politics as culture with Dissident Gardens author Jonathan Lethem.

The Courtesan Dies at the End

Breaking Bad—and all television series trading in epic narrative—owes a huge debt to opera and its famous tropes, including the death of the big-hearted woman. Before there was Andrea Cantillo, there was Marie Duplessis, the Lady of the Camellias.