Arts & Culture

A week with Avicii, the world’s hottest DJ.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

The case for gay marriage.

A former Facebook executive critiques Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” movement.

How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

How the author of Friday Night Lights spent more than half a million dollars over three years on “eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves.”

Life as a human cannonball.

An interview with the late writer.

Conspiracy theories, utopian fantasies, and cult involvement surrounding the international standard of musical tuning.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

An asshole learns to sing.