Corpses

Fear of what the dead might do to us didn’t start with Dracula, and it didn’t end with him, either.

A team of Ukrainian volunteers say that, since the Russian retreat, they have picked up three hundred corpses.

A new form of eco-burial was just legalized in Washington State. But will consumers be able to overcome the psychological hurdle of putting soil made from Grandma into the asparagus patch?

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.

“The cops were staring at her now, waiting for an answer, as she was guiltily faltering, fumbling.”

When he died, in a car accident, at the age of thirty-seven, the author had two unpublished stories among his papers. One (“The Sun, the Lady, and the Gas Station”) has been lost; the other, “The Impostor,” was recently rediscovered by the editors of the Library of America.