Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. This interview is part of a series about the 50 greatest fictional deaths of all time. It has been ...

Studio publicity photo for the film A Woman of Affairs, showing Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, 1929. Photo courtesy MGM Studios/Creative Commons You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the ...

You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the secret and forgotten history of 20 th-century Hollywood, has joined Panoply. And when each episode airs, creator and host Karina Longworth will share ...

A playwright in his mid-30s wants to pen an epic tale of ambition, authority, and power. He turns to his nation’s history, to characters familiar to his audience from school and legend. He performs a ...

In the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas, where guys dressed like the Marlboro Man loaf at gas stations and kids hang out at two-step dance halls, a sarcastic 55-year-old biologist from Zimbabwe is ...

Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that ...

When Josephine Anderson, a formerly enslaved Floridian, was visited by a white government interviewer in the fall of 1937, she told him a ghost story. Anderson described to Jules Frost a “white man” ...

Though it may look cool, the Herman Miller Rollback chair of 1977 is not the perfect office chair. Office chairs are like shoes, but not as much fun. We spend much of our time in them. They emphasize ...

Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker. A few months ago, Natasha Chenier submitted a piece to Jezebel about her sexual relationship with her dad. She described meeting her biological father for the ...

“Manhattan is just all bank branches,” said Jonathan Franzen as he walked through the living room of his home in Santa Cruz, California. When he visits his former neighborhood on the Upper East Side ...

Wikimedia Commons/White House Historical Association It’s a familiar chapter in our history, part of the triumphant narrative of westward expansion: In 1803, the United States bought a massive chunk ...

Cinematic bachelor pads from Ocean's 11, Boeing Boeing, and Down With Love. Courtesy of Warner Bros., TCM, and Twentieth Century Fox In 1941, George Jean Nathan put out an essay collection titled The ...