Arts & Culture

The meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest.

An interview with Stevie Wonder.

“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”

The strange life of a 15-year-old girl model.

An early profile of Justin Beiber.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

A profile of the country music legend.

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.