On Lisa Marie Presley

For decades after the Roman legions left Britain in the early fifth century, people expected them sooner or later to return. ‘During this bizarre interregnum,’ Pablo Scheffer wrote recently in the LRB, ‘a veneer of romanitas was everywhere.’ But unlike in other parts of the forme ...  Show more

In What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for writers to have political agency in a culture that instantly commodifies ideas? Lea Ypi, a professor of ...  Show more

Lisa Marie Presley will be remembered for many things like being the only daughter of Elvis, her contribution to music and her unfortunate marriage to Michael Jackson.  This week we learn about a very odd time in pop-culture history, when the king of Rock'nRoll's daughter dated t ...  Show more

On Tuesday night, we all saw Lisa Marie Presley cheer on Austin Butler at the Golden Globes. So nobody expected what happened just two days later. Yesterday, Lisa Marie died in the hospital shortly after suffering cardiac arrest at her Los Angeles home. In spite of having been ...

Lisa Marie Presley has been laid to rest. The daughter of icon Elvis Presley recently died after cardiac arrest at the age of 54. Yesterday, in a star-studded Memorial Service at Graceland, those who knew and loved Lisa Marie turned up to celebrate her life. There were touchin ...

Did you know that Priscilla Presley is an actual icon? In this episode of Thick & Thin, I detail the true and, by today's standards, scandalous relationship between the young Priscilla Wagner, and the King of Rock, Elvis Presley. // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // ...  Show more