Martin Filler
The Apprentice’s Sorcerer

Condé Nast’s editors shone brightest in its premillennial heyday, but the media company’s opaque proprietor, S. I. Newhouse Jr., made his most consequential discovery in Donald Trump.

James Quandt
An Impulsive Master

Jacques Rozier’s films are free-wheeling and intermittently brilliant, but his importance in the French New Wave remains unsettled.

Sue Halpern
The Twilight Zone

Laila Lalami’s prescient new novel follows a woman imprisoned by the government for her dreams.

When the End Starts

a poem by
Jorie Graham

all of us are shopping.
Our lists are made out carefully.
Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.
Remember what I asked you for.
Do I know her.
She is oddly far away…

Free from the Archives

In the Review’s February 22, 2018, issue, Craig Brown wrote about Tina Brown’s diaries—and the gilded social world of New York magazines in the late twentieth century.

Craig Brown
Doing the New York Hustle

In her diaries of her years at Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is certainly adept at noting, with her unforgiving eye, the flaws in others. Revulsion brings out the best in her.

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