This biography includes excerpts from Fitzgerald’s letters, stories, and novels.

Shoplifting has increased by 90% since 2018.

Not everyone can be or should want to be a leader, but almost anyone can hope to find true love.

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the first global celebrity: the first artist to be eclipsed by her image in her own lifetime, and the first to inhabit that image on multiple continents. Bernhardt first became renowned in France as a tragic actress, but then became a celebrity, as notorious for her exotic offstage life as she was admired for her onstage roles. In Britain and America, however, she began as a famous French actress, a figure combining the spectacle of theatrical performance with the spectacle of offstage celebrity.

In San Francisco, stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, and lotion under lock and key.

One of President Joe Biden’s biggest political headaches, the many illegal activities of his son Hunter Biden, was supposed to pass quietly into obscurity July 26 when a federal judge was expected to rubber-stamp a plea agreement between the Department of Justice and the accused.

“I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story,” Joan, a character played by Annie Murphy in one of the episodes in the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, tells her therapist at the beginning of the episode.

The best drink on the menu the day I was there was a refresher called the Southpaw.

There is a reason competitors such as Mastodon and Threads keep failing.

“I was born in a small town,” John Mellencamp sang in 1985. “And I live in a small town.” Actually, according to a recent issue of that small-town staple Architectural Digest, Mellencamp currently resides in Montecito, California, on “six acres of land at a mountainous peak.” It’s not a little pink house. It’s a rambling, white-painted former ranch with Spanish-style decor inspired by Karl Malden’s house in the movie One-Eyed Jacks. Ain’t that America.