Q

Schedule for Tuesday July 22

Jian is away for the summer. Guest host Piya Chattopadhyay will be filling in. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, the complicated role-playing game that has become a punchline for signifying nerdiness. But Ethan Gilsdorf argues that the game has helped foster...
Jian is away for the summer. Guest host Piya Chattopadhyay will be filling in. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates.

  • This year marks the 40th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, the complicated role-playing game that has become a punchline for signifying nerdiness. But Ethan Gilsdorf argues that the game has helped foster creativity in some of the culture world's great minds. [FULL POST]

  • Piya talks with poet Patricia Lockwood, whose humour and use of Twitter as a medium have drawn attention to her sharp writing. Her latest collection is called Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, and Publisher's Weekly called it "fiercely smart and aching with imagination." [FULL POST]

  • Best of Q: Jian's interview with musician Robbie Robertson on his book and CD, Legends, Icons, and Rebels, chronicling 27 musicians that he feels young people should know about. [FULL POST]