Longreads

Right around this time, Merrill asked his stockholders to decide whether he should attempt something known as poly­phasic sleeping. The idea—touted by Buckminster Fuller in the…

The outrageous story of how a couple of mysterious punk-hop noise-bringers bumrushed the majors, infiltrated the Hollywood elite, made your iTunes NSFW, and then vanished completely. In a year of…

I have only lately determined to remember some of my early adventures. Till now I have always avoided them, even with a certain uneasiness. Now, when I am not only recalling them, but have actually…

I have only lately determined to remember some of my early adventures. Till now I have always avoided them, even with a certain uneasiness. Now, when I am not only recalling them, but have actually…

Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen. In 1967, Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, she was…

Not many authors can boast of having written a best-selling pornographic novel, much less one regarded as an erotica classic—but Pauline Réage could. Make that Dominique Aury. No: Anne Desclos. All three were the same woman, but for years the real name behind the incendiary work was among the best-kept secrets in the literary world. Forty years after the publication of the French novel 'Histoire d’O,' the full truth was finally made public.

Torontos Noah 40 Shebib is the one producer Drake cant do without. If you want a laugh, pull up the music video for Drakes