The concluding volume in Gary Vitacco-Robles’ two-part series, Icon: What Killed Marilyn Monroe, is available now in hardcover and paperback … More
Category: Psychology
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
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
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
Beauty Myths: From Helen of Troy to Marilyn
Published in Italy in 2021, Elena and the Others: The Dark Side of Seduction is a study of beautiful women … More
The Marilyn Report 