Category: Nonfiction

In 1978, James Baldwin began working on a screenplay for Giovanni’s Room, his most beloved work. For the past forty years, though, the script has been shelved in a London flat.

Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.

Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up.

Fake celebrity interviews have been around for years, but Germany has seemingly become one of the largest exporters.

An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.

At Oxford American, Michael Graff remembers his dad, Carl.

Insomnia is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

Welcome to Warhol’s world.

If you had one chance at the adventure of a lifetime, would you go despite the dangers?

After receiving a string of menacing emails, Amy Kurzweil wonders: Can she safely extend a writer’s empathy to men who harass her on the internet?

Howard Hughes used gossip, spies and money to control Hollywood’s women for nearly 60 years. Karina Longworth critically examines the Golden Age’s gossip to stop his false narratives from becoming our history.

Stan Lee, the legendary comic book writer, editor, and publisher of Marvel comics, has died at the age of 95.

“It is so essential to morale that army and ­navy officers of the highest rank list mail almost on a level with munitions and food.”

One woman finds insight into her father’s rage in the scientific concept of entropy.

Sarah Kasbeer reflects on a history of hookups — and why they left her cold.

Despite the growing popularity of black romcoms, they remain segregated in public perception due to cultural white-washing.

Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.

Alice Driver travels into the heart of the caravan.

Jim Acosta isn’t the first reporter to be barred from the White House—when Stuart Loory reported on the possibility that Richard Nixon was bilking taxpayers, he found himself on the president’s enemies list.

With approximately 75 percent of golden age gospel music lost, the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project is trying to save what’s left.

Howard Lovy retells his grandfather’s childhood accounts of anti-Jewish violence and blood libel in pre-Holocaust Hungary.

How America stacks the deck against black farmers.

Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?

Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.

It’s long past time to ditch your Teflon pans.

Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jean Guerrero, Lauren Weber, Doug Bock Clark, Dara Horn, and Dan Nosowitz.

Countless women have been mistreated ever since sex became common on our screens. Hollywood’s newfound awareness of intimacy choreography can help change things.

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.