Readings

Jancis, Genius of Wine

A conversation with wine expert Jancis Robinson—author of at least 22 books, most recently Wine Grapes—on the wine renaissance, advising the royals, and the difference between tasting and drinking (and getting drunk).

The Value of Toilets

In areas where tenancy is unstable and human waste ubiquitous, how do you implement a sanitation system?

Lockdown

At a Brooklyn Walgreens, toiletries sit under lock and key. On social contracts and the nature of locks.

||Photo by Darren Calabrese
Paul Auster: Memoir as Musical Composition

The author discusses Brooklyn, baseball, writing autobiographically, and why he has never written a memoir.

||Bret Easton Ellis, whose book Glamorama clocks in at number five.
The Five Cruelest Works of Literature

Literary works that inflict terrible cruelty upon their characters—and upon you, dear reader.