The Lost Girls
The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.
Longform Best of 2015
We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
These were our favorites.
Arts & Culture
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The Late, Great Stephen Colbert
Discussions of character with the new Late Show host.
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The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison
The author at 84.
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The Third Revelation of Father John Misty
The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”
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In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino
“I probably am mellowing. I’m happy about that. I was a pretty angry young man, but if I were angry now, it’d be like, What the fuck is my problem? I’ve got a really terrific life. It’s so rare to be an artist in my position.”
