Top of the Stack
‘Shrew’ With No Apologies
Meryl Streep and the great Raul Julia in “A Taming of the Shrew” for the ages.
The Front Page
Toni Morrison: Finally Just a Writer
When quitting your day job is a brilliant career move.
The Making of “Fat City”
Craft Beats Art by a T.K.O. Leonard Gardner on location during the filming of “Fat City.”
Dream Weaver
Our favorite artist to come out of Pittsburgh—and no, it ain’t Andy Warhol.
The Lady in the Dark
Pauline Kael was the most loved, hated, and talked about film critic who ever lived.
Lauren Bacall: Remembrances of Bogie and Other Things Past
This is one of our favorite celebrity profiles—from the master, Helen Dudar.
And Yet We Got On
Omaha Beach After D-Day.
Farewell to a Gamer
Billy Bucks was as good as a ballplayer can be without being a hell of a ballplayer.
Who’s the Bull Goose Looney Here?
When they were filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at a mental hospital, it took a true connoisseur to tell cast from cuckoos
The Write Stuff
The art of storytelling, continued.
E. Jean’s Hoop Dreams
Sex and love in the time of Magic.
Asparagus Tops
“There’s the public sexual confrontation of eating someone’s clothes. There’s the absurdity of it. And, of course, I always try to make the food taste good.”
The Art of Hanging Out
Miss Didion surely deserves a wide audience among those readers who may still be turned on by such qualities as grace, sophistication, nuance, irony and, as Miss Didion observed in another context, “what used to be called character.”