Susan Orlean

Apart from the charm-school classes, Maxine Kline relished her time in the girls’ professional baseball league.

How Harry Yee put “paradise”—and those little umbrellas—in a cocktail glass.

She reigned at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, but life wasn’t always easy.

For nearly seventy years, Burny Mattinson drew many of the studio’s best-loved characters.

Gloria Dea began performing when she was five years old. Even then, she was sassy and self-assured.

Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.

A painted plane that flew the Alaskan coast.

Preparing meals is a Sisyphean task, and anything that promises to make it faster, or easier, or better, or healthier, or more fun, is irresistible.

During their time in Los Angeles, Wine and Kyagulanyi kept up a hectic schedule of press interviews and the meet-and-greet parties that are standard Oscar campaign events, in addition to the luncheon, where Kyagulanyi was seated next to Cillian Murphy and took a selfie with Emma Stone. Wine, who was at a different table, didn’t recognize his seatmates. “I don’t get to watch contemporary films,” he explained, noting how much time he’s spent in and out of prison over the past few years. “But I’m s…

Where was the rager, the explosive madman who years later would inspire a viral supercut on YouTube of the climactic outbursts that marked such films as “Moonstruck” and “Face/Off” and “Vampire’s Kiss”? From what I can tell, Cage leaves it all on the set. In person, he’s courtly, gentle, careful with his words, reflective, and quick to be silly. The yawning divide between his performances and his personality is deliberate: having appeared in more than a hundred films since he began acting as a t…