A conversation about aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

How dancing can inspire a writer.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

Scenes from Madonna’s first major tour and an author struggling to explain the 26-year-old’s massive, surging appeal.