Elizabeth Wurtzel Made it Okay to Write ‘Ouch’ By Sari Botton Highlight Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.
Remembering James Ingram By Tom Maxwell Commentary The R&B singer and songwriter made it look easy, even when it wasn’t.
Remembering Singer Nancy Wilson By Tom Maxwell Feature The influential singer’s voice cut across genres and decades, and it will continue to.
Stan Lee: 1922-2018 By Mike Dang Highlight Stan Lee, the legendary comic book writer, editor, and publisher of Marvel comics, has died at the age of 95.
Twelve Longreads for Aretha Franklin By Danielle Jackson Reading List Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 and died Thursday, August 16, 2018.
An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten By A. N. Devers Commentary On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.
‘You Wouldn’t Think the Ashes of a Man Would Be So Heavy’: Remembering Sam Shepard By Sari Botton Highlight Remembering the late actor and playwright Sam Shepard.
Mike Nichols: 1931-2014 By Mark Armstrong Reading List Mike Nichols, the beloved director of stage and screen—from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, to Barefoot in the Park and Working Girl— died Nov. 19, 2014 at the age of 83. Here are four pieces on the life of the artist.