Readings

Starting in 2008, a gang of California teens burglarized the rich and famous, making off with their red-carpet gowns and Louis Vuitton luggage. In The Bling Ring, her film about the robberies, Sofia Coppola exhibits a surprising—and disappointing—lack of sympathy for the underdogs.

Travelers heading to notoriously unsafe places are urged to be overly cautious, but such circumspection can force us to ignore basic facts of life about the places we visit.

Daniel Bergner's What Do Women Want? confirms that women are into sex. And this is a radical thesis, even if we know, from our personal lives, that it only scratches the surface.

On October 18th, 1978, Bill Matiyek was murdered in a gangland-style execution in a Port Hope bar. Conspiracy of Brothers, the classic true crime book, tells the story of rival outlaw biker gangs in small-town Ontario and the murder that thrust them into the courtroom.