Fake celebrity interviews have been around for years, but Germany has seemingly become one of the largest exporters.
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The Genius of the Playboy Interview
Dedicated research and hours of interviews crafted the gold-standard of pre-access celebrity journalism.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
The Examination of a Playboy Bunny
When Gloria Steinem applied for a job as a Bunny in 1963, she was told she first had to see a doctor.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Teen Idol Vanishes
Luke Perry’s untimely death reminds us that Dylan McKay was one of the last icons of adolescence.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny
A personal essay in which Shannon Lell recalls discovering her father’s porn collection when she was 9. Looking back on her childhood longing to be a sex-symbol, she grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny
After longing to be a sex-symbol as a child, Shannon Lell grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
Posted inStory
The Final Five Percent
If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error
Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
These Boys and Their Fathers
Trying to form some connection to the father who abandoned him, an outdoorsman surfs the California beach where his father grew up, while looking for answers in the autobiography his father left behind.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny
After longing to be a sex-symbol as a child, Shannon Lell grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
