Readings

The 1943 killing of a Manhattan heiress led to a demonizing public conversation on homosexuality. A decade later, a true crime book obfuscated the sexual details.

Talking with the author of A Strangeness in My Mind about writing about food and eating, urban exploration, and bringing the humanity of background characters to the fore.

My loss of God occurred soon after I got to divinity school. I still can't decide if that was the least likely of places for it to happen or the only place in the world where it was possible.

The spy's relationship with the villain Colonel Sun veered from tradition: absent a manufactured fatal love triangle, Amis examined the toxic, unsatisfying power dynamics between like minds.

Talking to a member of the video game speedrunning community about the appeal of the practice, its status as a sort of performance art, and tensions over encroaching commercialization.

The author of more than 300 children's books on spending a lifetime with a single character, the process necessary to produce three books a year, and talking to kids about death.

How a Yukon art project became a national phenomenon of sold-out shows, dream selves and subversive sexuality. 

When women can't speak up, a chorus of voices should rise to their aid, though that often seems like too much to hope for. John Irving understands this in a way most male writers don't or can't.

Guy Maddin's new feature imagines "unrealized, half-finished or abandoned films by otherwise successful directors" not as artifacts to pine after but as the accumulated muck of cinematic history.