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Michael Light in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

The Believer

"Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America..."

What's the Big Deal? | by Sally Feldman

New Humanist

The Church has always been wary, regarding cards not merely as the route to gambling, but also as “the Devil’s picture-book” because of their association with dark practices like fortune-telling...

From N+1: When we self-diagnose, we look for control factors. Sometimes we invent them. The goal of solipsistic anxiety is to find an individual agent that explains our misery. We eliminate possibilities one-by-one in hopes that a single cause remains. This is how people deduce food allergies and come...

Funniest Pages: A tasting menu from the most hilarious magazine ever | by Craig Lambert

Harvard Magazine

Contrary to the romanticized image of a solitary artist forging brilliant creations in inspired isolation—Franz Kafka, say—most great works of art emerge from a group...

Brenda Song as Christy Lee in The Social Network From New York Review of Books: How long is a generation these days? I must be in Mark Zuckerberg’s generation—there are only nine years between us—but somehow it doesn’t feel that way. This despite the fact that I can say...