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Rachel Bloom Has a Funny Song About Death
October 13, 2024
At the start of 2020, the comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Bloom was riding high. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical TV show that she had co-created and starred in, had...
A Bronx “Family Album” from Hip-Hop’s Early Days
October 12, 2024
Many of the photos he took during those early years appear in “The South Bronx Family Album.” In addition to Joey, who is pictured sitting cross-legged in a Buddha-like...
Owen Smith’s “Alexei Navalny”
October 11, 2024
The cover of the October 21, 2024, issue, by Owen Smith, is a portrait of Alexei Navalny, an excerpt of whose prison diaries appears in the issue. Navalny details...
The Rise and Fall of Vince McMahon
October 11, 2024
Something’s bugging me about the way political happenings unfold these days. How do we—all of us who, during the past decade or so, have been baptized in the waters...
“Anora” Is a Strip-Club Cinderella Story—and a Farce to Be Reckoned With
October 11, 2024
Earlier this year, the Cannes Film Festival observed a heroic first: the director who won the Palme d’Or, the event’s highest honor, dedicated the prize to “all sex workers,...
“The Apprentice,” Reviewed: The Immoral Makings of Donald Trump
October 10, 2024
The one element of movie art that “The Apprentice” spotlights is acting. A dramatization of Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, the film features a...
Four-Hundred-Plus Pages and a Day
October 10, 2024
In a new graphic novel, the petty and tedious appear magical and strangely beautiful. Source link
Sarah Smarsh on Capturing the Richness of Working-Class America
October 9, 2024
The journalist Sarah Smarsh grew up on a farm in rural Kansas, in “the sort of poverty that qualifies for welfare, though my proud family didn’t apply.” Her writing...
“The Outrun,” Reviewed: A Disappointingly Constrained Showcase for Saoirse Ronan
October 9, 2024
Just about every aspect of “The Outrun” feels synthetic except for the sincerity that all of its prime collaborators put into it. An adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir...
A Public Defender’s Radical Approach to Representing the January 6th Rioters
October 9, 2024
“You can see the Capitol from here,” Heather Shaner, a criminal-defense lawyer, says as she walks with her client Jack Griffith, a.k.a. Juan Bibiano, a.k.a. Liberty Dragon, to his...
The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death”
October 8, 2024
There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard...
Should You Just Give Up?
October 8, 2024
Around fifteen years ago, an old college friend of mine had a close call in the mountains. He and a companion were on a ski trip when they decided...