In his first ever public Q. & A. session, in November, 2014, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Facebook, told viewers that, although he found Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of him in “The Social Network” “hurtful,” he had to admit Read More …
“What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?” Falstaff demands of Prince Hal, in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” “Is not the truth the truth?” The joke, of course, is that he has been lying his head off, and the prince Read More …
Fans of “Freaks and Geeks,” the high-school dramedy about Midwestern teens in the early eighties that ran for one glorious season, on NBC, in 1999-2000, will likely remember what is, to me, its most indelible scene. In it, one of Read More …
Imagine Roy Cohn, Harry Potter, Joan of Arc, and Eliza Doolittle all at the same dinner party. Oh, and SpongeBob SquarePants. You’d get something approaching the 2018 Tony nominations, which were announced on Tuesday. It’s an odd race, reflecting an Read More …
I walked into the Tribeca Film Festival première of Netflix’s “The Rachel Divide,” a domestic portrait of our modern minstrel Rachel Dolezal, already feeling bored. That’s not how I like to approach a work of art. But what could the Read More …
We went to Montgomery, Alabama, to think about history, our country’s and our own. As a historian and a novelist, neither of us is especially adept at the confessional mode; it’s possible that we take pains to avoid it. We Read More …
The minute is a strangely flexible unit of time. Waiting for a dreaded event—an interview, a Supreme Court decision—it is as leaden and as detectable as a stone in the palm; when revelling in a welcome one, it takes flight. Read More …
The comedian John Mulaney makes a point of thanking his audiences several times for coming to see him perform. He did it a decade ago, when the crowds were small, and does it now, in considerably larger venues, such as Read More …
As rollouts go, the very short press blitz for the new season of “Arrested Development,” the first eight episodes of which are streaming on Netflix (with more to come at a later date), was downright Bluthian. First, on May 4th, Read More …
Mark Zuckerberg has spent most of his adult life apologizing, but he hasn’t managed to improve much. Ever since he was caught scraping faces from Harvard’s intranet for Facemash, his viral hot-girl-comparison Web site, in 2003, he has been explaining Read More …