Readings

Rakoff and Hitchens on Death, with Nothing Afterward

Tackling the end of life in a godless world.

| | Lola Landekic
My Musical Heroes Don't Go To the Bathroom

Living legends—even those as distinguished as music producer Joe Boyd—are less cool than ghosts.

The Rise of the Femoir

How the bare-all confessional gave female comedians a break—and then broke their legs (it’s a metaphor).

How Should a Person House-Sit?

Reading Sheila Heti’s latest novel in Sheila Heti’s apartment. While feeding her rabbit. And wearing her lipstick.

| | Lola Landekic
The Importance of Being Andy

Considering Andy Warhol on the 25th anniversary of his death; considering how Hitch considered Warhol in 1996 (when this now out-of-print article was originally published).

| | Andrew Kolb
Checking in with Calvin Trillin, Part 1

The first in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter.

Werner Herzog: The Director is Present

Filmmaking at the border of life and death.

If It's Fiction, It Better Be True

Novelists Grace O’Connell and Steven Heighton talk about the meaning of truth in literature.