biography
The Best Musical of the Year Is a Hip-Hop Show About Alexander Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway play 'Hamilton: An American Musical' is inventive, educational, and also really, really good.
No Time for Epitaphs: Behemoth’s Nergal Talks Defying Death and Embracing Life
“The here and now is what I fought for”
There Will Never Be Another Pete Steele: A Conversation with the Author of Steele's New Biography, 'Soul on Fire'
The Green Man's legacy lives on in Jeff Wagner's new biography.
A First Person Account of That Time Ol Dirty Bastard Got his Welfare Check in a Limo
A chapter from the new biography 'The Dirty Version,' exclusively at Noisey
The Evolution of Flying Lotus
How did a Nintendo playing, cartoon addict become a Flying Lotus? Stage by stage, we look at the evolution of LA’s modern beat king.
A Moron's Guide to Trey Parker
From South Park to The Book of Mormon via pissing everyone off in between.
Paula Broadwell's Unedited Manuscript
Last week, the media was abuzz over the sordid details about ex-CIA chief David Petraeus’ extra-marital affair. The FBI investigation that uncovered the four-star general’s infidelity and led to his resignation should never have been necessary.
A Letter to My Future Biographer
If you are reading this then you already know: My legacy as a once-in-a-generation literary genius has stood the test of time. My unexpected and politically significant death merely burnished my reputation as an eerily prescient novelist, beloved...
The Deaths of David Foster Wallace
Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography...
Ten Things R. Kelly's Autobiography Taught Me
Robert Sylvester Kelly has written a book. The creator of everyone’s favorite hip-hopera, oft-topless legend of 90s R&B, and retired Star Wars-themed stripper (more on that later) invites you to take a trip to the theme park that is R. Kelly’s past...