In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

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So it was telling that the only victory on the floor that Democrats scored during the hours of drama this week leading up to ...

On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

Song of the summer” is a complex characterization—it’s not simply the most popular track of the season (that’s likely to be ...

“A victory, basically, for Combs.” A reflection on the trial of Sean Combs, in which the rapper was acquitted of the most ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

For a long stretch of his life, Daddy had two women to nurture him—Mrs. Williams and my mother—but Our Ma had only one ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...