A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway
The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
Culture
Tuesday
Why I’m afraid of transphobia
The state coercing people into abandoning their consciences does create genuine fear
Saturday
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
Tuesday
Drinking with Picasso
To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
Monday
Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?
They’re a kind of last line of defense against the intolerant left
The growing bipartisan backlash against ‘Latinx’
Its use is a great way to drive Latinos rightward
Friday
San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
For just $5 million per person, we can rid ourselves of the iron burden of truth
Thursday
East Palestine and the roots of rural mistrust
Big government has not often been a friend to small towns
Monday
The magnetism of His Dark Materials
Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils
Greg Lansky: the artist with a scandalous past
As an adult film magnate, he profited off the broken aspects of our society for years
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
Monday
Bianca Censori: Kanye West’s new handler
The rapper and designer’s second wife is tasked with clean-up on Aisle Yeezy
Wednesday
The tragedy of corporate America’s anti-child messaging
They portray kids as not worth the trouble — and have no idea what they’re missing
Thursday
Dana White’s Power Slap is a gruesome freak show
Defenseless head slaps are Idiocracy -grade entertainment, not sport
Wednesday
The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater
It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Playing God with Paramore
What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden
I began to find the uncanny experience transporting
The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq
After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene
Monday
A pilot explains why air travel has become so stressful
A shrinking workforce means it takes ‘a game of musical chairs’ to get you into the air
Wednesday
Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin
On narcissism and sham masculinity
Friday
Ebony and ivories
The Piano Lesson puts its characters first
Thursday
A staunch defense of ‘nepo babies’
Most of them use their privilege for good!
Tuesday
An ingloriously dumb adaptation
Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage
Edward Hopper’s America
The popular perception of the loneliness in the painter’s work could not be more wrong
Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later
The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle
Monday
How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud
It began with a séance…
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Real life doesn’t have a block button