Culture

A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.

Queerness has always existed — even on the Civil War battlefield.

Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.

Either way, Rod Serling definitely pissed him off.

A film scholar reflects on the image of masculinity depicted in "Grease 2," released the same summer of Kavanaugh's alleged assault.

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.

The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

The concept of adolescence is a recent invention — and it has been applied unevenly to children from different backgrounds.

The beloved romantic comedy’s date rape scene provides important context for the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.

The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.

Can renowned Southern chef and writer Edna Lewis' radical communist politics be parsed out by analyzing her cookbooks?

The ‘First Television War’ was also documented in over 5,000 songs.

Good thing he had other talents.

Baldwin's often overlooked final years of activism during the 1980's.

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos.

Where's the country music on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 1980s?

How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became one of the most widely spoken words in the world.

A racial stereotype rears its ugly head.

The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

While the female factory worker is a pop icon now, the “We Can Do It!” poster was unknown to the American public in the 1940s.

The long history of athletes taking a stand for racial justice.

For the last decade of his life, the sozzled Hemingway was in thrall to an Italian 30 years his junior.

The "bikini body" is out. But the pressure to maintain the ideal female physique lives on.

How one 28-year-old feminist bluffed her way into running a copy department and made rock journalism a legitimate endeavor.

How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy.

"Tanglewood" is the first new Sega Genesis game in years - the latest example of gaming developers looking back, not ahead.