Marilyn’s Very ‘Retro’ New Year, and the Story of a Dress

Marilyn is featured twice in the December 2022 issue of UK nostalgia mag Yours Retro (#57, with Tony Curtis on … More

The Private Side of Marilyn at Julien’s Auctions

Continuing my series of posts on the Icons and Idols event at Julien’s Auctions this Saturday, December 17, today I’m … More

America’s Favourite Cliché: Marilyn and the Myth of Norma Jeane

In an excellent article for The Atlantic, Sarah Churchwell (author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe) deconstructs the pernicious … More

‘Becoming Herself’: Finding Marilyn’s Feminine Power

The queer feminist academic Sophie Lewis has written a very personal tribute to Marilyn for the November issue of literary … More

Michel Schneider’s Last Words on Marilyn

Michel Schneider, author of Marilyn’s Last Sessions – a novel reimagining her relationship with psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson – died … More

‘To Love Bravely’: Finding Marilyn in Her Poetry

Writing for Vulture, Marya E. Gates argues that ‘Marilyn’s truth was in her poetry’ (as collected in the 2010 book, … More

Marilyn’s Last Sessions: A Graphic Novel

Marilyn’s Last Sessions – a novel reimagining her relationship with psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson – earned French author Michel Schneider … More

American Dreamers: Marilyn and Sylvia Plath

“Sylvia Plath was the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature,” Carl Rollyson wrote in American Isis, his biography of the poet. … More

Anne Hathaway Works Out With Marilyn

In a fitness-themed layout for Interview magazine, actress Anne Hathaway tries weightlifting, Marilyn-style – in jeans and a terry-cloth bikini … More

On This Day: Marilyn at Payne Whitney

On February 10, 1961, Marilyn was admitted to hospital in New York, as the world’s press reported a day later … More