Death: A Celebration of the Bitter End

Harper’s Magazine hosts a literary event about the ultimate demise. Sounds grim, but the participants—novelist Joseph O’Neill (Netherland), short-story author Diane Williams (It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature) and the smart, entertaining Russian-fiction aficionado Elif Batuman (The Possessed)—promise to shed light on a dark subject.