Readings

Forgive Me, Father: Greatness and Disorder in James Agee’s Letters

The fullness of Agee’s character, searching and self-punishing, is hard to glean from a single work; his newly reprinted letters to Father Flye, capturing the author throughout his life and at his most untethered, bring us closer than anything else.

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‘We Can Be Vibrating Strings Of Energy’: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander

The author of Proof of Heaven explains how a Near-Death Experience made him think differently about consciousness, and why science needs to shed its materialism for a more spiritual approach.

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How Paranoid Should You Be?

Most of us disregard conspiracy theorists as cranks and zealots; at the same time, we value skepticism, and plenty of conspiracies have turned out to be true. Where is the line between skeptical inquiry and going off the deep end?

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Eating the Heart of Richard Maxwell

A dubious, obsessive attempt to understand the work of the playwright/director behind Neutral Hero, Isolde, and Burger King.