Photo: doug88888, Flickr Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant? Wells Tower | GQ | June 4, 2014 | 32 minutes (8,196 words) […]
“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.”
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
In the early ’90s, Mike Jeffries gave struggling retailer Abercrombie and Fitch new life by selling a specific kind of lifestyle to teenage shoppers who “wanted to belong.” Times have changed, and the retailer needs to as well: Until relatively recently, Abercrombie’s numerous press scandals followed a predictable pattern: a flood of petitions and angry […]
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
[NSFW] A look back at Bruce Lee’s early career and the making of Enter the Dragon. (One of Lee’s costars, Jim Kelly, died Saturday at age 67): “Enter the Dragon struck a responsive chord across the globe. Made for a minuscule $850,000, it would gross $90 million worldwide in 1973 and go on to earn […]
“In prison Angel thought that it wouldn’t be too hard to find a job once he got out. He believed he had come a long way.”
He was the heir to the televangelist’s empire, but Richard Roberts soon disappeared from the university that his father founded.
This week’s Member Pick is a chapter from Among Murderers, a new nonfiction book by Sabine Heinlein, published by University of California Press, examining the lives of criminals as they prepare to re-enter society. Heinlein, who was recently awarded a Pushcart Prize for her Iowa Review essay “A Portrait of the Writer as a Rabbit,” […]
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