How female corpses became a fashion trend
Women posed as dead bodies are an advertising staple, including the new Marc Jacobs ad with Miley Cyrus. Why does fashion fetishise the female corpse?
Why is America giving gun licences to blind people?
It might seem like asking for trouble, but Iowa is not the only US state to allow blind people to carry guns.
xoJane cranks up the blog dial
The founder of the women’s website ?notorious for its lurid headlines and confessional writing finds licking eyeballs part of a good days’ work.
‘Ageing gracefully is a lost concept for us’
As many as 10-million women worldwide have risked having the operation. <b>Kira Cochrane</b> asks why.
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Living a lie for the American dream
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas kept a secret that could have meant his deportation from the United States.
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Gay girls in the web of hoaxes
Sexual kicks do not seem to be the reason two men posted as lesbians online.
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Bunny tales, rabbit droppings and life in the Playboy mansion
Playboy is about to open a new club in London aimed at men ‘with money and taste’. But can Hugh Hefner’s brand regain the glamorous sheen it once had?
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More people make a clean break
It might be worth us all occasionally missing a shower or two, then, so long as we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Lady, tramp, feminist icon
Is Lady Gaga an important feminist, a force for good? Or is she simply a canny performance artist? <b>Kira Cochrane</b> enters the debate.
Filling in the gaps
<b>Barbara Kingsolver</b>, winner of the Orange prize for fiction, talks about communism, Frida Kahlo and hate mail she received after 9/11.