If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Celebrity cookbooks are always greeted with a little side-eye at first. Don’t famous people all have private chefs or eat at fancy five-star restaurants all the time? But …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A cult’s recruitment process and psychological hold on its members can seem like an obvious red flag to outsiders, and leave us thinking, as individuals, that we’re way …
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Before Jimmy Page will entertain an interview, he has a question of his own: “Do you play the guitar?” The correct answer, of course, is yes. “That’s useful,” he says. It’s early October when Page calls from the home just outside London where he and his girlfriend have been quarantining …
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Last fall, Margaret Atwood published The Testaments, a sequel to her 1985 bestseller, The Handmaid’s Tale, which for decades has served as a cautionary tale about how easily a once-democratic and thriving country such as the United States can slip into authoritarian rule. Since the success of the Emmy-winning Hulu …
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This post contains spoilers for the You book and TV series. Joe Goldberg is coming back for book three of the You series, and this time he’s taking a page from John Mellencamp and moving to a “Small Town” — the serial killer is sick of being chaotic evil and …
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Very early in his career, Howard Stern realized that he could only get so far in radio by being a standard disc jockey.”I didn’t want to be the guy spinning records,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I had too many friends who went down that route and they were great announcers …
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Eileen Myles sits at a small café in the East Village, near the apartment they have called home for 40 years. Myles, who now prefers to use gender-neutral pronouns, explains that they know people who have been in the apartment building even longer. “There were people who came in in …
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