How do different generations interpret freedom and the rules of survival?

Rachel Kramer Bussel wonders whether she’d want to be able know about her future, like the characters in the new YA novel The Future of Us.

A college professor spends a semester with an autistic student, and learns a few things about teaching.

D. R. Haney on the blockbuster that stunted the American mind and spoiled a personal childhood dream.

Dan O’Dair contemplates the heavy significance that can be couched in an apostrophe, and the technology that sometimes gets in its way.

Mary Richert discovers her dharma.

Literary bigwigs and bird experts predict the end of friendship as we know it.

Arielle Bernstein investigates what Catfish tells us about gender perceptions in film.

Dika Lam talks to author Jennifer Egan about writing, books, technology, and her new novel(?), A Visit from the Goon Squad.