In June 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe across two separate sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air for Vogue. Six weeks later, she was dead. The story behind The Last Sitting.

Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell spent 25 years collecting over 4,000 secret photographs of men in love from the 1850s to 1950s. Their book Loving is one of the most quietly radical history projects in recent memory.

George "Buzz" Beurling shot down 31 enemy planes over Malta, got fired for shooting at his own commanding officer, and died on a covert arms run to Israel at 26. Canada's most celebrated fighter ace had a life stranger than any war film.