The impeachment saga of Bill Clinton, the subject of the second season of “Slow Burn,” the Slate podcast hosted by the Slate staff writer Leon Neyfakh, would seem, at first, to have little in common with Watergate, the subject of Read More …
How do we heal the heart? As a historian of religion, I often return to the Gnostic Gospels, an astonishing cache of more than fifty sacred texts, discovered in Egypt, in 1945. Many of them speak to this question: How Read More …
Chief among the satisfactions of “I Am the Night” (TNT) is the sight of the annoyingly handsome actor Chris Pine having his face pistol-whipped into a mass of ground veal. The directors—including Patty Jenkins, who directed Pine in “Wonder Woman”—approach Read More …
On a frigid Wednesday in mid-December, I met the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski in the cavernous gallery space of Dia:Chelsea, just off a wind-scoured section of the West Side Highway. He was in New York to promote his latest film, Read More …
At a certain point several years ago, I needed to figure out whether I was a baritone or a tenor. This was a matter of considerable urgency, because baritones had a depth and oaky solidity to their voices that I Read More …
Last week, in Connecticut, at a stop on the comedian Aziz Ansari’s comeback tour, ticket holders were told to lock away their electronic devices before entering the venue. At the door, ushers sealed smartphones in neoprene sleeves manufactured by a Read More …
There’s a particular pleasure in reading a play. It gives you the chance to be director, set designer, and casting agent, as you flip the pages with invigorating speed. Plays are quick to read, so, before you know it, you’re Read More …