Readings

How do you preserve a language while still letting it grow? 

In a new documentary about the 1964 killing of Kitty Genovese, her brother confronts the myth that 38 people turned a blind eye to her murder. 

From the heartsick graverobbers of early Romantic literature to the latest gritty cable crime drama, the dead woman is never simply mourned and forgotten, but fully objectified and consumed.

The director of Chevalier on character development, masculinity, and why kissing is really kind of weird.

Any provisional understanding of what’s going on in your head is comforting—even if that understanding is a fiction. Rather than therapy, I look to the stars.

The author on horses as harbingers of death, MFA programs, and how reading is a way to practice being brave.

As much as I appreciate wine and like to drink it, I’m not building a monument to good taste—it's a library of possibility.

Drive through any parking lot in Whitehorse and you’ll see Protect the Peel bumper stickers everywhere. Did I bring my dad on our 16-day canoe trip through the region to protect him, or me?

The author of Talking to the Diaspora discusses deep space, Harry Potter, and the language our bodies are speaking.