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PAUL HARRIS / GETTY Hunter S. Thompson’s Letters to His Enemies
The great gonzo journalist understood America’s fractured politics long before the rest of us did.
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Peter Staley The Chaotic Elegance of Flea
In his new memoir, Acid for the Children, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist exhibits virtuosic vulnerability.
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Lucille Clerc Philip Pullman’s Problem With God
In His Dark Materials, now an HBO series, the author takes on organized religion. It’s not a fair fight.
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BenBella Books Neil Young’s Boring, Prophetic Message to Readers
The musician wrote his new book, To Feel the Music, the same way he makes records—according to a highly evolved aesthetic of half-assedness.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Agence Opale / Alamy; ... The Loser-Spy Novelist for Our Times
Mick Herron writes about the broken spies sworn to protect today’s broken England.
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TRAVIS SHINN / RCA RECORDS / The Atlantic The Persistent Complexity of Tool
Back with new music after a 13-year hiatus, the legendary metal band is as precise and devastating as it has always been.
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Oliver Munday; Museo Nacional de Arte And Then Job Said Unto the Lord: You Can’t Be Serious
In a new translation of the Book of Job, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind.
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Tom Hammick / Bridgeman A Book That Examines the Writing Processes of Two Poetry Giants
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge once spent a grueling year in nature, subsequently producing some of their most resonant works.
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Armando Veve The Spectacular P. T. Barnum
The great showman taught us to love hyperbole, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.
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Jonathan Prime / Universal Pictures Why Yesterday Made Me Cry
A writer contemplates how a film that imagines a 78-year-old John Lennon could actually be moving.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty Hannah Gadsby’s Genius Follow-Up to Nanette
On her current tour, the star comedian is having a conspicuously great time making humorless subjects hilarious.
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Katie Martin ‘A Work of Art Designed by the Devil’
Dispatched by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
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Saudi Press Agency / AP When Donald Trump Touched the Magic Orb
Two years ago today, the U.S. president, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took an iconic photograph.
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Walter McBride / Corbis / Getty Viceland’s Dark Side of the Ring Shows the Sleaze and Humanity of Wrestling
The series explores the disaster and reality of the shadowy sport.
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Ori Toor What Song Exploder Has Taught Us
How the hit podcast has revealed the creative process of artists as diverse as Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, and Lorde
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Patrick Leger The Lost Art of Deadline Writing
A new anthology of sportswriting celebrates the poetry written in the press box.
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Jon Savage Deciphering the Mystery of Joy Division
A new book explores how the group turned itself into a portal for some of the most alien and beautiful information ever to be broadcast through the medium of a rock-and-roll band.
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Oliver Morris / Getty Images The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
In the time since the publication of Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal novel, the work has never gotten old and it’s never waned in energy.
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Hsiao-Ron Cheng Killing It With Kindness
Ellen DeGeneres, daytime superstar, is itching to try something new. But America needs the old Ellen more than ever before.
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Kevin Winter / FOX / ImageDirect How Aerosmith and Run-DMC Begrudgingly Made a Masterpiece
Initially, neither group was excited about collaborating for “Walk This Way.” The rest is history.
