For more than three decades, R.E.M. has been one of the most perpetually forward-thinking bands in rock. The lead singer is now ready to do a little looking back.
Christopher Isherwood died in 1986, leaving a legacy of timeless writing and his young artist lover Don Bachardy. To this day, their romance remains Hollywood's greatest gay love story.
Inspired by artists of the legendary New York School, downtown menswear designer Adam Kimmel has conceived a functional new line for the artist in all of us
Sketch drawing has struggled to be taken seriously. But in the past few years, putting pen or pencil to paper has broken through to the art world elite
For the past 17 years, she has stood as the punk siren of the band No Doubt. But there is more to Gwen Stafani's platinum blonde life than meets the eye. There's her fashion line, her acting career, and her first solo dance album with a little help from some music-industry heavies
What can a 24-year-old guy barely out of college possible have to teach us about love, life, and loss? In Jonathan Safran Foer's stunning literary debut, everything is illuminated
In 1999 on a Dutch beach, Aleksandra Mir constructed a lunar landscape out of sand, erected an American flag on the highest peak, and declared herself "The First Woman on the Moon."
Photographer Nanci Sarrouf followed the music and guided her lens through the indulgent night habits of downtown New York in the late '90s. Here is a look into her album
In his latest story collection, Brooklyn writer Rick Moody envisions a terrifying landscape where New York is annihilated and a new drug takes over what's left. It's a brave new world that only Moody could spin
They sleep right under you. Enjoy the same restaurants. Use the same street. But that's okay, because you live in their city. In his latest book, writer Robert Sullivan examines the darker, dirties, trash-strewn history of rats in America—one tail at a time
Some writers are national treasures. Salman Rushdie is an international necessity. From his days in hiding to his life above ground in New York, Rushdie doesn't write about one big world. He writes about all of them
How can a man all of 35 pen a memoir that shakes the entire city of San Francisco? Writer Sean Wilsey's autobiography is a glorious read far stranger than fiction
Horror movie stars aren't only made by running from knife-weilding maniacs in front of the camera. Special effects makeup artist Tom Savini is responsible for some of the most horrifying gore in modern cinema
Writer Vendela Vida has a talent for getting into the minds of her subjects. In her debut novel she takes the lead of one young woman and holds a gun to it
A new wave of photographers is producing work that doesn't merely resuscitate old motifs. These cameramen are barreling ahead with an awareness of how photography's conventions and restrictions can be turned upside down
