Readings

From public testimonies of grief to video game dispatches from the funeral industry, the way we think about death is changing. 

No other producer did for Columbia Pictures what Virginia Van Upp, one of Hollywood's first female executives, did in the 1940s. So why did her influence slowly fade away? 

 The Victorian supernatural was a transparent manifestation of the period's constant dialogue with death and dying.

I don’t know where or when I learned that I needed to curb any narcissistic tendency I might feel, even in grieving, but I most certainly caught on quick.

How naive I was, to have thought that when someone hurts you, the polite response is to ask him to stop.

For over a decade, outgoing New Yorker copy head Ann Goldstein has made Elena Ferrante's work come alive in English. We spoke with her about translation, Italian lessons and Dante.

Talking with the author of All Our Wrong Todays about the unintended consequences of innovation, the seductive powers of nihilism, and writing movie scripts about skateboarding chimpanzees.

Money was tight, so I started taking on more questionable modeling gigs. I had to eat.

Speaking with the author of Death in the Family about Dr. Charles Smith, the paediatric pathologist whose mishandling of child death cases caused untold pain for already devastated families.