His new novel is about mass incarceration, indoor football, and parallel universes. De La Pava says that when “you dig deep, you start seeing the way everything is connected.”
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Karina Longworth on the Women Caught in Howard Hughes’ Hollywood Web of Gossip
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.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Exodus in the Ozarks
At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine
In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
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The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
