A Guitar's Life
An instrument’s impact on a handful of Texans.
Arts
The Disappeared
How the fatwa changed his life.
Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps
A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.
Kiss: The Pagan Beasties of Teenage Rock
On the road with the makeup-clad band.
The House That Hova Built
An essay on Jay-Z.
Beyond the Matrix
A profile of The Wachowskis.
"You Have to Talk About Salt"
An interview with Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold.
In Hollywood
On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.
Punk Rock Fight Club
Inside FSU, the hardcore brotherhood where the wrong t-shirt can get you killed.
Manufacturing Taste
The history of Kraft Dinner, Canada’s “de facto national dish.”
Best Article Arts Business Music
The Mogul Who Made Justin Bieber
A profile of Scooter Braun.
How Lester Bangs Taught Me to Read
The rock critic’s lasting impact.
All This Light
A profile of Chan ‘Cat Power’ Marshall adrift in Miami.
Prog Spring
The history and reception of progressive rock.
Chicken of the Trees
“The squirrels may take my tomatoes and spit them back, but they would not go unanswered. The time had come to close the circle of life.”
Interview: Paula Cooper
Talking with the influential New York gallerist.
The Last Outlaw
A profile of Merle Haggard.
The Million-Dollar Nose
A profile of wine critic Robert Parker.
Broken Heartland
The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains.
Gore Vidal: The Art of Fiction No. 50
INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.
An Odd Bird
When U.S. customs law met abstract art in the form of a bird, “shimmering and soaring toward the ceiling while the lawyers debated whether it was an ‘original sculpture’ or a metal ‘article or ware not specially provided for’ under the 1922 Tariff Act.”
Hello, Nasty!
A profile of actress Christina Ricci.
Aquarius Wept
When the Rolling Stones played Altamont.
Julie Delpy Rocks New York
A profile of the actress and screenwriter.
Why America’s Funniest Home Videos Won’t Die
The secret is an exclusive 22-year-old archive of viewer-submitted clips.
