Murder Orthodoxies: Sex, Lies and Marilyn
Among the thousand or more books about Marilyn Monroe, there are certain strands – from coffee-table monographs to cultural criticism. One theme is so persistent, however, that it has become a sub-genre in its...
We have done a disservice to the memory of Marilyn Monroe, and by that disservice, to all of those who followed her.
This statement is true of many things in her life, from her career to her private life, but...
JOIN US this Sunday (May 6), on the Immortal Marilyn Facebook page, for a Q&A session with author Michelle Morgan, whose newest book The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist hits...
Would Marilyn Monroe have called herself a feminist?
The answer is probably no; in Marilyn's day and age the word was basically unheard of. It didn't come into popular use until a few years after her death. Even if it...
Of Women and Their Elegance
Norman Mailer
With photographs by Milton H. Greene
Simon and Schuster 1980
The thing with Mailer is like the thing with Hemingway—you either love him or you can’t stand him. It’s hard to be ambivalent about a larger...
