Kurt Andersen and Nick Hornby look at how youth is no longer wasted on the young.

Nick Hornby is the author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, and A Long Way Down. He also edited the collection of short ...

A lot of people dream of becoming rock musicians. But the middle-aged professionals who make up the Oxymorons never became super stars. The band members told Rachel McCarthy that their wonky Washington day jobs don’t stop them from making rock-n-roll.

In the 1970s George Lucas and Steven Spielberg invented a modern Hollywood hybrid — the high-end Saturday children's matinee for grownups. In the decades since, the kids' movie for adults has transformed entertainment. We asked Curtis Fox to figure out why.

The entertainment industry demands that performers have flawless, youthful, and unlined faces. Actress and teacher Heather Rashe just finished her dissertation about actresses and their anxieties about aging. She told Lu Olkowski about what’s at stake for women who perform in front of a camera.

A lot of us grew up with GI Joe and Princess Leia action figures. But today's selection of tiny plastic dolls isn’t limited to movie and comic book characters. Super heroes worked hard to make our democracy safe. So it naturally follows that we can now customize our ...