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A photo of a young Tom Cruise and a recent photo of him
Posted inQuotes

Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List

by Chloe Walker June 30, 2022October 19, 2022

Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Between Russell Simmons and The World and Oprah

by Sari Botton February 20, 2020October 19, 2022

Russell Simmons moved to Bali to avoid the legal fallout from a litany of #metoo accusations, but that didn’t stop him from spending time, recently, in New York City. Veteran journalist Kevin Powell conducted many interviews with him there, attempting to understand his one-time idol’s perspective. In the wake of Oprah Winfrey’s withdrawal from producing […]

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story

Regarding the Pain of Oprah

by Soraya Roberts February 5, 2020December 16, 2022

She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.

Posted inArts & Culture, Story

The New Old Hollywood

by Soraya Roberts March 1, 2019October 19, 2022

The Hollywood establishment used to be dominated by old white men, but that’s changing fast.

Jonathan Franzen
Posted inHighlight, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes

Jonathan Franzen’s “Readers”

by Catherine Cusick June 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Haters could write the book on hate reading Jonathan Franzen, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.

Posted inMedia, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

A Speech and a Sermon

by Catherine Cusick January 11, 2018October 19, 2022

In her speech, Oprah reached out to “every man who chooses to listen.” Fifty years earlier, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked fearful men to speak up.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Diet Is a Four-Letter Word

by Krista Stevens August 2, 2017October 19, 2022

Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores America’s history of obsession with thinness and her own struggles with her body.

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