"Jack Ketchum's "The Girl Next Door." It implicates the reader, makes us complicit. We side with the lesser evil in the story, and think that makes us good, when really it just smears a little wrongness on us."
"How Paleolithic cave art was made. Or, how Bertrand David and Jean-Jacques Lefrère argue it was made, in "The Oldest Enigma of Humanity." It's completely changed the bedrock of the world, for me."