by Sheila Weller | Dec 20, 2021
Editor’s Note: With the news that Eve Babitz has passed away at 78, we are re-publishing Sheila Weller’s 2019 in-depth look at the writer/provocateur who was recently rediscovered by the younger generation. *** I remember Eve Babitz when she published the...
by Sheila Weller | Nov 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: Last month, UCLA announced that Barbra Streisand has donated funds to create the Barbra Streisand Institute, which will include four research centers–one in each of these fields: truth in the public sphere; the impact of climate change; the...
by Sheila Weller | Oct 20, 2021
We’re living in the new “Everyone, start your own business!” age. Lots of midlife women who have launched dazzlingly successful businesses as second or third stages of their lives have had earlier life chapters that not only didn’t predict this fate but that were...
by Sheila Weller | Jun 17, 2021
Editor’s Note: With the news that Christiane Amanpour has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, we’re republishing this vivid profile by Sheila Weller. We have long admired Amanpour, and do so even more now that she’s using her ordeal to help other...
by Sheila Weller | Jun 4, 2021
Editor’s note: To mark Gay Pride Month, we are republishing this moving story about two veterans who built a life together after serving their country. *** On a sunny day in September 2013, two 45-year-old women happily got in their car to drive from Texas to...