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The consuming passions of David Cronenberg
I talked to the legendary director about his novel, Consumed. Just don’t call it “body horror,” like I did.
Dirty deeds
Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann discusses the Osage Indian Reservation murders, stolen oil, and the early days of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
Subterranean homesick blues
Chthulhu ain’t got nothing on Underland author Robert Macfarlane.
The time of the preacher
Tom Kizzia on Pilgrim’s Wilderness, an all-American tale of narcissism, religious mania, and the worst people who think they know best.
It’s getting pretty ‘squatchy round these parts
If there’s one book that might make you a Bigfoot Believer, John Zada’s In the Valley of the Noble Beyond could be the one.
Weird science
MythBuster Adam Savage on becoming a maker and his book, Every Tool’s a Hammer.
The movie’s fine, but the book is way better
Dive deep into the Expanded Porky's Universe—and more!—with these classic movie tie-in novelizations.
It takes one to know one
Climber Mark Synnott on witnessing Alex Honnold’s “Impossible” El Capitan free solo.
A guide to “roughing it” for hipsters and other artisanal types
Sure, they’re a bit twee, but don’t judge these books by their covers.
Take a walk on the wild side
Books to get you dreaming about late sunsets, dusty trails, and wide-open spaces.
Jeff Tweedy is finally home
I was anxious about talking to the Wilco frontman about his autobiography, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back). It shows!
“I am Antarctica”: David Grann on The White Darkness
The author of The Lost City of Z goes to the ends of the Earth in search of another doomed adventurer, Frank Worsley
Chris Stein’s heart of glass
The Blondie guitarist on music, photography, and the secret of the goat.
Let fury have the hour
Tim Mohr’s Burning Down the Haus unearths the unknown history of East Berlin’s punk rockers, and how they helped tear down that wall.
Strange bedfellows
America’s astronomer laureate Neil deGrasse Tyson on the relationship between astrophysics and the military while eating soup in the back of a limo.
Infected by rock & roll
MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer documents his descent into his self-made hell and his reemergence into the world of the living.
Misty water-colored memories
If you’re feeling nostalgic about my childhood, here’s a list books to wallow in.
Who is the dreamer?
It’s not easy to get the straight story out of David Lynch, but Kristine McKenna did it in her collaboration with the incomparable director, Room to Dream.