The Death of Philip K. Dick Brought to Life
The science-fiction writer was guided during his life by a prescient inner voice that he sometimes called the “entity.”
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
The Weekend Essay
The “Epic Row” Over a New Epoch
Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Death Valley Postcard
The Death Valley Lake That’s Gone in a Flash
Lake Manly forms in Badwater Basin only after especially heavy rains. Paddlers grab their paddles and go.
By Meg Bernhard
Shouts & Murmurs
I Can’t Stop Calling the National Guard
I called the National Guard when I overbaked my brownies and my smoke alarm went off; I called the National Guard when I underbaked my brownies and I was worried they might make me sick.
By Charlie Dektar