Life And Art

Sandy? Romney? What Slate Staffers Are Most Afraid of at This Moment.

Katy Waldman

Oct 26, 2012 6:18 PM

How the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” Changed America—and the life of the Woman who Wrote it 150 Years Ago

Benjamin Soskis

Nov 17, 2011 1:24 PM

Were J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson Lovers?

Beverly Gage

Nov 10, 2011 1:21 PM

Why we love Secretariat.

Meghan O'Rourke

Oct 08, 2010 12:09 PM

What The Social Network gets wrong about Harvard—and Facebook.

Nathan Heller

Sept 30, 2010 8:13 PM

The alternate reality of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network.

Luke O'Brien

Sept 30, 2010 6:58 PM

How “Howl” changed the world.

Fred Kaplan

Sept 24, 2010 2:29 PM

Is Michael Mann’s Public Enemies historically accurate?

Elliott Gorn

July 01, 2009 7:38 PM

How worried should you be about the robot takeover depicted in Terminator: Salvation?

Petere W. Singer

May 21, 2009 3:50 PM

My great-uncles participated in the Valkyrie plot to overthrow Hitler.

Rose Dakin

Jan 12, 2009 4:59 PM

What WWE champion Mick Foley thought of The Wrestler.

Mick Foley

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A new Broadway musical sexes up the life of Grace O’Malley.

Barbara Sjoholm

May 10, 2007 5:27 PM

Can you mention divorce in a kids’ movie?

Susan Burton

Dec 13, 2006 3:40 PM

What Borat gets right and wrong about Kazakhstan.

Eric Weiner

Nov 03, 2006 4:56 PM

The morbid fascination with the Black Dahlia.

Seth Mnookin

Sept 14, 2006 4:28 PM

How the 9/11 rescue really happened.

Rebecca Liss

Aug 09, 2006 4:31 PM

Who were the Knights Templar?

Malcolm Barber

April 20, 2006 1:14 PM

Separating truth from fiction in Spielberg’s Munich.

Aaron J. Klein

Dec 23, 2005 4:22 PM

What one Marine makes of Jarhead.

Nathaniel Fick

Nov 09, 2005 2:09 PM

The real life of a sports tout.

Jacob Lewis

Oct 07, 2005 1:59 PM

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