Readings

Bringing Death to the Table

A person's right to die means the beginning of some difficult conversations. Here, a son on what patients, families, and physicians need to talk about.

Lives From New York

On Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band and Robert Christgau's Going Into the City.

Do Fanboys Dream of Electric Cars?
An innovative company, a last-century idea. Will Apple become the new Ford?
A User's Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro

With The Buried Giant, the author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day has again conjured the unexpected. Here, an attempted primer for an indefinable writer.

Pour Me Another: Mixology's Tipping Point

The more seriously people take bartending, the more it turns toward self-parody.

Three Fates in Nigeria

Terror threats, delayed elections, and inept social media assistants: Imagining the fight for Nigeria's political future.

The Essence of Archie

Through their many permutations, Archie comics have always evoked a certain adolescence—even when their tangles of anachronism likely felt foreign to any real-life teens.

Are Atheists Angrier Than Everyone Else?

On the pervasive stereotype of the militant non-believer.