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This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor

So, for this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Via Poolos and Senior Multimedia Editor Jared Adelman sat down with two people who are intimately familiar with the process of dying. In Act One, Dan Loesche explains Washington University's Gift of Body donation program and what it is like to be a mortician. In Act Two, we talk with Barbara Finch, who is signed up to donate her body to Dan's program when she dies.

Unadorned, beautifully delivered, linguistically gorgeous and both funny and wrenchingly sincere, it’s one of the most beautiful plays I’ve ever seen, and I think you should see it, too.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about a family who are brilliant at math but also face challenges of mental illness.

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring a bracing comedic energy to a “Waiting for Godot” that makes sense of the play’s various absurdities and resonant depth.