Readings

The case here described is real, witnessed by the author in bail court. The names have been changed and some details and times condensed. This week in Worse Off Than You: a businessman must decide whether to pony up the bail money for a man who has broken the conditions of his bail once before.

Earth is doomed—to science fiction writers, always, and increasingly to the rest of us. Enter Mars Literature: a surprisingly hopeful subgenre that might contain the clues to our species' survival.

When it works—think Beyoncé and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Blur and Martin Amis, Nirvana and Patrick Süskind—the intersection of pop music and literature can be a wonderful, mutually beneficial thing.

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