Culture

Journalist and feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and spent her life working toward a more equitable world

The ancient Greeks had three distinct words for anger. Until “Furious,” I had no idea this was the case –

The dead don’t rest anymore, at least not until someone’s turned their stories into content. A bit of a nihilistic

Have you heard the tale of — come closer, we can’t speak too loudly — the . . . Whisper

Trauma creates superheroes, we’re told. Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents’ murder and made vengeance his life’s mission. Superman survived his

Every time a megacorporation does something that is so categorically, unequivocally, indisputably, jaw-droppingly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, all-caps

A shaky Rolling Stone exposé published earlier this month set out to examine comedian Reggie Watts’ potential culpability in his

If given the chance to gain thousands of admirers for your work, would you take it? The artists who my

Nashville International Airport could soon bear the name of one of Tennessee’s most famous daughters: Dolly Parton. Tennessee Gov. Bill

Days after Dolly Parton died, we’re still discovering ways that she made people’s lives better. Whether through her body of

Do me a favor. Picture MTV’s “Total Request Live” at the height of its powers. Carson Daly shouting to be

When Dolly Parton spoke, one could tell she always had her tongue planted firmly in her cheek — and I’m

Historians like to claim that the pre-millennium monoculture is dead. Really, it’s just blurred. Smartphones have fooled us into thinking

There are two scenes in Jane Schoenbrun‘s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” that I hope will be among

Dolly Parton made a lot of things across her 60-plus-year career: massive hit songs, a theme park, a children’s literacy

The seduction of sin was only theoretical to me until I fell for Tim Curry’s performance in “Legend.” That title

There comes a time in every English-speaker’s life when they learn the meaning of the French phrase “la petite mort,”

Funnily enough, when Dolly Parton made her debut on “The Porter Wagoner Show,” she wasn’t wearing any rhinestones. Faux jewels,

American icon Dolly Parton, whose career as a country singer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist spanned six decades, has died

Greg Dulli and his Afghan Whigs are back with “Soft Control.” The new Whigs record is a strong collection of