An unlikely bipartisan alliance attempts to get Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

What happened when 21-year-old Taiwan Smart became the target of both police and a reality TV show.

What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?

“More than a café, the shop is a carpentered-together, ingenious mechanism—a specialized tool—designed to keep Carrelli tethered to herself.”

Sweet Valley High and the enduring economic power of blond twins.

An interview with Lorde.

The gay influence on American cooking.

The art of shaping a magazine article.

The rocky career and enduring appeal of country legend Charlie Rich, “the missing link between Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.”

A profile of novelist Jennifer Weiner.

Unpacking the 76,897 micro-genres that make up the cinematic DNA.

An oral history of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back.’

Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

The reality TV star today.

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

“Does a talent for comedy necessitate a tragic life?”

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”

Resurrecting a legendary typeface.

The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star on being married to Woody Allen, Jewish words, and Girls.

A comic who had previously refused to discuss his private life opens up for the first time, riding high on the surprise success of Blazing Saddles more than thirty years into his career.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

The tale of the only art exhibit in space.

After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

The unraveling of Lisa Frank, Inc.