From his earliest days in California, Arnold was a polarizing, impossible-to-ignore figure.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Media, Nonfiction, Story
When American Media Was (Briefly) Diverse
An economic downturn in 2008 shuttered numerous publications and further marginalized people of color in an already minimally integrated industry. But in the 90’s and early-aughts, multicultural publications flourished, providing an alternative model for journalism that bears remembering.
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Meatballs: An Oral History
Vanity Fair talks to members of the cast and crew who created one of America’s cult comedies, and Bill Murray’s breakout film, to see what happened on and off camera that fateful summer of 1978.
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes
Meditations in an Emergency
In this oral history of the 2016 election, the media loses the narrative thread it had been creating for decades.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Remembering ‘Ally McBeal’s’ Creepy Dancing Baby
An oral history of “Ally McBeal” from the show’s cast and creators, 20 years after its debut.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
The World of Nora Ephron: A Reading List
Seven stories about the journalist and director, on the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, “You’ve Got Mail.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Edith Zimmerman, Eli Saslow, William Brennan, Meredith Haggerty, and Kelly Conaboy.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘Austin Powers’ at 20: A Shagadelic Oral History
On the making of an unexpected cult classic (ill-tempered mutated sea bass included).
Posted inNonfiction
American Tests
In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.
