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Diane von Furstenberg has been putting on The Diane von Furstenberg Show for something like half a century. Act I…
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In February, I attended a one-off screening at Metrograph of the 1987 film “Making Mr. Right,” in which a young…
Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen
A mother sits in the front seat of a car, her tanned and freckled face glowing; her daughter, owlish and…
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For more than forty years, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along” was a problem in search…
Aasif Mandvi Contains Multitudes | The New Yorker
The actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi’s three-decade career—which began with a bit part on “Miami Vice”—encompasses three distinct eras of…
A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do
The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how…
What George Miller Has Learned in Forty-five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies
George Miller’s film career began with barely averted violence. In 1971, when he was a twenty-six-year-old medical student in Sydney,…
Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving
A child we cannot see is in danger. We hear the beeping of medical monitors. We hear his nurse say,…
The Scholar of Comedy | The New Yorker
The cartoon of Jerry Seinfeld is that he is the comedian who goes on “about nothing.” The nihilist of the…