Readings

A note from your editors.

My grandmother had no way of knowing a book on birds, sent from Russia when I was a child, would determine my adult fascinations. 

Talking to the author of Transcendent Kingdom about the effect of perspective on readerly sympathies, the politicization of addiction, and the superficiality of "listening and learning."

Our ancestors were born to die by predators. We are born to die by products.

Talking to the author of The Unreality of Memory about predicting disaster, criticism of self-contemplation, and a post-truth world.

The editor of Unspeakable Acts on the problems inherent in true crime reporting, the human desire for narrative, and the failings of the criminal justice system. 

I knew we were only going to Rulo to make up for his getting so drunk he slept in. Rulo was an apology.

Talking to the author of Cuyahoga about geographic feuds, stories as coffins, and LeBron James.

The author of Luster on surveillance in the suburbs, writing the id, and the joy of Comic-Cons.