In the 18th century the East India Company was the most powerful and dangerous corporation the world had ever seen — that is, until the A.I. giants turned up, William Dalrymple writes.
Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”
Dolly Parton “used humor and charm to control every interview,” writes Jad Abumrad, creator of the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.” “She was always two steps ahead of you. She never allowed herself to be a part of a story of which she was not the author.”