Readings

Ebola is nightmare fuel: a biological doomsday device conspiring with our bodies to murder us in uniquely gruesome fashion. It’s also killed fewer than 2,000 people. How has a virus with such a modest body count so fiercely captured the darkest corners of our imagination?

Colson Whitehead was miserable when he entered the World Series of Poker. But poker is a perfect game for the miserable—and for a writer.

That the pill can lead to depression, even severe depression, is a truism among women who take it. So why is the clinical link so controversial and difficult to establish?

Odd Future's Adult Swim series, Loiter Squad, may resemble Jackass in its approach to humour, but it accomplishes something much closer to Chappelle's Show.