Readings

Say Good Night, Saturday Morning

On the end of Saturday-morning cartoons.

Tyranny of the Healthy

As our population ages, the question becomes more dire: how do we preserve the rights of the elderly? Atul Gawande's Being Mortal contains some ideas.

Maybe You’re the Villain in Your Story

Notes on an evening with Dan Harmon, and the myriad ways in which you can enchant and disappoint the ones you love (or, at least, who love you).

Negotiating With the Zeitgeist

Prince's new albums fit in with his recent output: variations on conventional songcraft spelled by stretches of self-quotation. And yet, there's still every reason to look forward to what's next.

The Nord Remembers

It was always easy to dismiss Montreal as a baseball city. Now, though, 10 years after the Expos’ final game, it's somehow harder than ever.

Kneel Before the IOC

With the potential host cities for the 2022 Winter Games narrowed down to Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan, the International Olympic Committee is no longer even trying to hide its priorities.

Are You #amwriting?

Leave it to writers to turn an ostensible productivity tool into yet another distraction.

Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen

How a trio of "punk capitalists" killed the counterculture and beat big media at its own game.

The Closing of the Online Mind

Like Sarah Palin and the Fords before her, Paula Deen's new video network is ostensibly a platform to engage directly with fans unperturbed by certain scandals. It's also a way to avoid reality.