Britney Spears works Vegas, bitch.

A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.

The author remembers his stepfather, E.B. White.

The early days of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

Inside the split of the Hoefler/Frere-Jones typography team.

An interview with Curtis Mayfield.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

On wine’s sacred and profane history.

A profile of Sophia Amoruso, the 30-year-old CEO of Nasty Gal and author of #GIRLBOSS.

How the actress masterfully shapes her public image.

A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.

“But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth. Not superficial costs—anybody can have that—I mean in truth. That’s what I write. What it really is like. I’m just telling a very simple story.”

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

Making vision boards with rap’s strangest fallen star.

On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.

On a recent lawsuit over Stairway to Heaven and Led Zeppelin’s deep catalog of songs that were revealed to have been written by others.

But not for want of programmers trying.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

How CREW and MUSTIE decide what books stay in a library's circulation.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

The story of Max Factor, a Polish immigrant who revoltuionized Hollywood cosmetics starting in the 1920s, and his “Beauty Calibrator” machine.

Growing up with Charlie Brown.

How a Japanese company took over the American living room.

An oral history.

The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”