Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1988, Kathy Shorr had just graduated from the School for Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in photography and was looking for new material to shoot. For her thesis, on ballroom…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “ ‘Hollywood Squares’ was one of the cheesier game shows of my childhood,” says the cartoonist Roz Chast, who drew her ideal selection of panelists for the cover of the January 13,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be transformed into a nursery for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the stranger effects of Brexit was that, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, in 2020, it no longer recognized animals as “sentient beings.” When the U.K. was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fame after death can kill again. The historian knows this; the biographer knows this. No longer here to shape their own image, familiar figures become unknown to us. So many privacies…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If your New Year’s resolution is to stop obsessively reading post-election analyses, then perhaps you would welcome another way of understanding these United States. What do Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released the previous…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most filmmakers, like most people, have interesting things to say about what they’ve experienced and observed. But the definition of an epic is a subject that the author doesn’t know firsthand:…