Michael Jackson Archives

Michael Jackson

The King in Queens

by Ly Tran,

From House of Sticks, a memoir, which will be published this month by Scribner. Seven o’clock on a Saturday morning, a few years after my family left Vietnam for Ridgewood,…

Lost Boy

by Margo Jefferson,

From the introduction to a forthcoming edition of her book On Michael Jackson, which was first published by Pantheon in 2006. In the first year of the twenty-first century my…

New books

by Larry McMurtry,

G.O.P.Y.T.

by Ronald Reagan,

A letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson, dated February 1, 1984, five days after the singer’s hair was set afire by pyrotechnics during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.…

Weekly Review

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 In Tal Afar, Iraq, a truck bomb killed 152 people, making it the deadliest…

Readings

Art by David Cowles,

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