Articles
Chris Hemsworth on Fear, Love, ‘Furiosa’—And Naming a Son After a Brad Pitt Character
The actor best known as Thor moved back to Australia to be close to family and far from Hollywood: “The chatter in my head got so intense.”
May 2024, Vanity Fair
Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman
I try not to let apology creep into my voice when someone asks me for my name. It’s only been a few years since Karen became a catch-all for meddling, abusive white women who take it upon themselves to jeopardize a Black person’s peace.
April 30, 2024, Literary Hub
Inside Selena Gomez’s Beauty Juggernaut: The Rare Beauty Founder on Makeup, Gen Z, and Navigating Social Media
Fifteen-year-old girls don’t want advice from their mothers. It’s a truism as old as time, and yet for every parent, a bitter pill. When it comes to crafting and caring for their emergent selves, teenagers look to their phones, to brands, to celebrities. In this moment, they are finding all three in Selena Gomez, who, with 428 million followers, is the most followed woman on Instagram.
October 2023, Fast Company
Jennifer Lawrence Does It Her Way
After a long break, the Oscar winner returns with the ferocious satire Don’t Look Up, and talks to V.F. about love, fame, and boundaries.
December 2021/January 2022, Vanity Fair
Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Need to Have a Voice’
These early Dance Theater of Harlem stars met weekly on Zoom — to survive the isolation of the pandemic and to reclaim their role in dance history.
June 17, 2021, The New York Times
Catherine the Great
Catherine O’Hara’s performance on the dearly departed comedy was a career-topping triumph—and now feels like an allegory for our altered times. V.F. photographed her with a drone, and talked to her about her early friendship with Gilda Radner, flubbed auditions, and the curative power of gratitude.
June 2020, Vanity Fair
In Hollywood, Stories about People of Color are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack
In a 2018 essay for Time magazine, the actress Gabrielle Union lamented Hollywood’s lack of imagination when it comes to casting people of color. Why, she asked, is it so hard to make movies about black and brown people that tell “the same nonsensical and mundane stories as white women and men”?
Chrissy Teigen & John Legend: The First Family We Deserve
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen on Love, Childhood Traumas, and the “Sh--ty Human Being” in the White House.
December 2019, Vanity Fair
A Novelist Inspired by the Cold War, a C.I.A. Typing Pool and ‘Dr. Zhivago’
Lara Prescott — fascinated by the way Boris Pasternak’s novel was used as a propaganda tool — conjured a world of secretaries, spies and mint-green typewriters in her debut, “The Secrets We Kept.”
September 3, 2019, The New York Times
In Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up,’ a Young Rapper Finds Her Way
Books get written about kids like Starr Carter, the beloved heroine of Angie Thomas’s best-selling “The Hate U Give.” Too few of these characters have brown skin, but we are familiar with the story about the exceptional kid, the girl so imbued with goodness and greatness that we trust the wind at her back to guide her through the storm.
February 5, 2018, The New York Times Book Review
Starbucks is Bringing Hope—and Profit—to the Communities America’s Forgotten
From Ferguson, Missouri, to military towns, the coffee giant is rejuvenating key areas of American society—and redefining what a brand can be.
August 2017, Fast Company
The Realities of Raising a Kid of a Different Race
As transracial adoption becomes more common, here’s what every parent should know.
February 17, 2015, Time Magazine
Local Hero: How China Smith is Changing the Face of Ballet
Her back quivering in plank position, 17-year-old Danielle looks ready to give up. "Don't you quit!" says China Smith, Danielle's dance instructor and founder of the Austin dance studio Ballet Afrique. Smith's youth company is nearing the end of its rigorous class warm-up of barre stretches and pliés. With her hand on Danielle's back, Smith turns her attention to the other teenagers in the room, exhorting them to push themselves to their limit: "I want you to know that feeling where you're so tired, just beat down physically and mentally—and still you trust in your power."
December 2012, O Magazine
The Chemistry of Nicholas Sparks
''The Notebook'' and ''Nights in Rodanthe'' scribe has penned 14 bestsellers in 14 years.
October 3, 2008, Entertainment Weekly
What Happens When Pop Culture Comes to a Town Without Entertainment
What happens when pop culture moves into a town without entertainment? We find out by exploring Utopia, Texas, a town that's long lived without blockbusters, bookstores and movie theatres.
August 25, 2006, Entertainment Weekly
Wild at Heart
Harry Dean Stanton, whose lengthy film and TV tenure included roles in Pretty in Pink, Big Love, Repo Man, and Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, has died at the age of 91. In 2006, EW’s Karen Valby spoke to Stanton, who worked with everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Justin Timberlake, about his formidable career.
May 26, 2006, Entertainment Weekly
