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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.

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.

At nearly age 70, Charles is the “longest-waiting heir apparent in history.”

New York might be Lou Reed’s most politically active album, especially on tracks like “Halloween Parade,” which functions both as a dirge and call-to-action confronting societal torpidity.

“He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades. But do we really know Elton John?”

In this economy, what’s a fair share?

Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.

But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don’t belong here

While ICE makes headlines, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency continues to detain and search American citizens far from the actual border, and it doesn’t need a warrant.

Lee Krasner wasn’t just instrumental to the evolution of Jackson Pollock as an artist. Her influence extended across the Abstract-Expressionist movement.

Lil Wayne’s reimagining of G. Dep’s “Special Delivery” has thrust the ex-Bad Boy rapper back into the pop culture spotlight.

OutKast’s masterful 1998 album “Aquemini” defined a bold and Black South and predicted today’s pop music landscape.

The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.

Nicole Chung wants white parents of transracial adoptees to grapple more candidly with the reality of racism in America.

After years of feeling hopeless and barely human, one talented writer manages to find her will to live.

Imagining an economy based in environmental reality

The complexities of the “American dressing” are subtle.

Looking back at the weekend that nearly destroyed America’s economy.

Sjón’s “CoDex 1962” is the fulfillment of a pact he made with the Maharal of Prague in the Old Jewish Cemetery almost three decades ago.

Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.

Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.

“When I started asking myself questions about my own notions of masculinity. I just felt so limited, so suddenly afraid of becoming the kind of man I’d grown up in fear of.”

Accompanying a contestant to a pro-level Galaga tournament to discover how many digital space bugs you have to destroy to find renown, community, and a modicum of inner peace.

Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.

Can we imagine an economy built for free time?

“We were nothing to these companies but a number in a database. And they fully controlled our fates.”

A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.

Only if the US government doesn’t classify it as a Schedule I controlled substance.

Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.