by Sheila Weller | Mar 21, 2022
“Back then, when we all first read him, white male privilege was taken for granted. But how we felt about books then and returning to them now—well, it’s not an easy answer,” Holly George-Warren tells me in a phone conversation from her home near Woodstock, NY. The...
by Sheila Weller | Mar 10, 2022
When Diane Clehane–a mover-shaker extraordinaire–died at the end of February at age 61, more than a gasp of sorrow went up in the community she created. That community was an intersection of fashion, media folk, royal watchers and fans, and connoisseurs of...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 21, 2022
Ann Hood walks into our neighborhood hangout–Cafe Cluny in New York’s West Village–pops off her winter cap, and sits down across from me, all with a big smile on her face. It occurs to me I’ve never seen Ann not smiling: like, I mean wide, enthusiastic,...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 18, 2022
Editor’s Note: As we mark our Fifth Anniversary, we went back to look at our most-read stories since we launched in February 2017. This story is the at the top of all 1,500 pieces we’ve published. It’s an amazing exclusive look by NextTribe contributor...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 16, 2022
Editor’s Note: As we mark our Fifth Anniversary, we went back to look at our most-read stories since we launched in February 2017. This story came in third, with almost 375,000 readers, and it’s no wonder. It’s a poignant, fascinating piece about...
