Every August since 1969, we, as a culture, have taken a deep breath and tried to figure out how we are going to live with Charles Manson. This year marks the first time that we will manage this reckoning without Read More …
Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot. I remembered Geoffrey Owens not from “The Cosby Show,” on which he played Read More …
First things first: Thank God Jan said yes. Halfway into the seventieth annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Glenn Weiss pulled one of the oldest television tricks in the book: a surprise proposal, straight out of a sitcom season finale. Weiss was Read More …
In 2015, Anna Wintour presented Karl Lagerfeld with an Outstanding Achievement honor at the British Fashion Awards. “I have often thought that in my next life, I would like to come back as Choupette, his extremely beautiful and bourgeois cat,” Read More …
Numbed by the spectacle, we tremble at the sight of an army of mindless zombies, as relentless as they are soulless, marching to extinguish whatever humane life might be left in the world; they act at the order of their Read More …
Christine Blasey Ford requested anonymity when she first wrote a letter to her congressional representative Anna Eshoo, and, later, to Senator Dianne Feinstein, of California, describing an incident at a party when she was in high school. In the letter, Read More …
Netflix dropped “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” on January 1st, to serve viewers’ urges of self-improvement at the start of the New Year. The show’s optimistic visions of revitalization, achieved through simple efforts toward domestic order, is a decent hangover Read More …
Jazz history is recent history. Wayne Shorter, who was born only thirteen years after Charlie Parker and seven years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane, turns eighty-five today. Shorter is the greatest living jazz composer and a key participant in Read More …
It is not difficult to rhapsodize about the oasis-like quality of the movie theatre, especially during high summer, and especially in a place like New York City. When relentless heat and humidity have transformed your neighbors into the crankiest and Read More …
One afternoon several years ago, Emily Martin, a professor emerita of anthropology at N.Y.U., filled out a personality questionnaire through an app on Facebook called This Is Your Digital Life. This was long before the app’s creator, Aleksandr Kogan, was Read More …