Category: Arts & Entertainment

Howard Stern and Boomer Decline

Ben Sixsmith Oct 29 Howard Stern is traipsing back to his Manhattan studio after two years of staying at, and broadcasting from, his enormous Hamptons home. Stern has been too afraid of COVID-19 to budge from his palatial residence since the beginning of the pandemic. What happened to […]

Some Find

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Some Find”:   Some find it easier to die than to go on living. Some find it easier to avoid looking at death than to ever truly live. Some find it easier to turn their bodies into hardened weapons and go […]

Revolt in Iran

New York Review of Books Christopher de Bellaigue Khamenei’s Dilemma How far will Iran’s supreme leader go to suppress the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic since mid-September? Francine Prose ‘We Know What That’s Like’ The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks […]

The Prison Abolitionists

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Duke University Press Our November 3 issue is online now, with Sigrid Nunez on Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, Bill Keller on prison abolition, Giles Harvey on Ian McEwan, Brenda Wineapple on the nineteenth-century radical Lydia Maria Child, John Banville on Rilke’s metamorphoses, […]

The Ballad of Jared Kushner

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Our October 20 issue is online now, with Fintan O’Toole and Darryl Pinckney on the queen and the Windsors, Jenny Uglow on Berlin, Joshua Cohen on Jared Kushner’s ego-neediness, Kwame Anthony Appiah on the German Romantics, Sue Halpern on […]

Hilton Als on Jean-Luc Godard

New York Review of Books Hilton Als Godard’s Women Cinema is a gift in that it allows for exposition—the betrayal of secrets—in frame after frame, actress by actress. Jerry Brown On the Downbeat Joan Didion was gentle in person, and quiet-spoken, but ferocious in her honesty. Malise Ruthven […]

Stephen Breyer’s Prophetic Dissent

New York Review of Books Linda Greenhouse A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent Stephen Breyer’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s Parents Involved case has proved prophetic about the decision’s consequences for racial integration in public schools. Michael Gorra Corrections of Taste Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries traces a shift in English studies in which close […]

Look With Nature’s Eyes

Look With Nature’s Eyes Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Look With Nature’s Eyes”: Thanks for reading Caitlin’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.   Look with nature’s eyes, with atomic eyes, with Eden eyes, with primordial eyes. Stand on nature’s […]

My Husband the War Criminal

New York Review of Books Joyce Carol Oates Disaster Was Her Element Miranda Seymour’s I Used to Live Here Once is a richly detailed and warmly sympathetic look at Jean Rhys’s turbulent, disjointed life. David Motadel My Husband the War Criminal Nancy Dougherty’s The Hangman and His Wife portrays Reinhard Heydrich as […]

Face It You’ll Believe Anything

Banned Hipster Before TikTok they had Daytime TV. The most infamous and self-referential – really Hollywood “Generation X” shit – the most hipster of them all was Jerry Springer. These shows had always staged fights, and some were likely real – Al Sharpton and Roy Inness were really […]

The Racism in Textbooks

New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]

A More Perfect Disunion

If the NYROB is publishing articles on pan-secessionism by an Ivy League academic, it is an indication that elite opinion is now starting to take the idea seriously. New York Review of Books Sponsored by Share International Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson These Disunited States It is time to consider […]

The Painter in the Paint

New York Review of Books Andrew Kuo, whose painting Stay Up, 2014 shimmers on the cover of our Summer Issue—the first issue after we redesigned the print magazine—is an artist and author who contributes regularly to T: The New York Times Style Magazine and cohosts, with Ben Detrick, […]

Italo Svevo, Old and Young

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Nathaniel Rich ‘The Italian Proust’ Italo Svevo’s late fiction has all the dark irony, self-flagellating introspection, manic obsessiveness, and unapologetic moral perversity of his best-known work. Phoebe Chen Perfect Recall In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, a Scottish orchidologist moves […]

America’s wealthiest, including Tom Brady, Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye and Nancy Pelosi’s husband took millions in PPP loans – and nearly all have been forgiven

By Chris White For Dailymail.com Celebrities including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Khloe Kardashian received millions in government PPP (Payment Protection Program) loans, set up for desperate businesses hit by the Covid pandemic DailyMail.com can now reveal the exact amounts that these millionaires took out via the government program  […]

“The Anarchists” HBO Series

I watched the whole series. I thought the producers over-dramatized everything, which I guess was easy enough to do with the murder, fugitive stories, and other deaths. But nothing really happened that wasn’t just ordinary human drama. The way some of the people express disillusionment at the end […]

John Cleese’s War on Wokeism

The Monty Python legend says political correctness is ruining creativity in all aspects of human activity. From shows and movies ranging from Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers to Life of Brian and A Fish Called Wanda, the comedian John Cleese has uproariously and relentlessly satirized politics […]

Video: an honest conversation

‘I think of Ireland as a Woke equivalent of Ceausescu’s Romania, 1989. Okay, you don’t have people disappearing . . . YET — though we get threatened on an industrial scale.’ — Craig Fitzsimons John Waters It’s not us, it’s them . . What has happened to rock […]

In Defense of Liam Neeson!

Matt Taibbi Careful, those gun-fingers are dangerous   Sunday morning reading brought me to this line, in between sips of coffee: Has the image of fatherhood in the “Taken” films fallen out of step with modern conceptions of masculinity? @AndrewAoyama explores what it takes to separate fatherhood from […]

The Joy Of Doing Nothing

By Andrew Sullivan As this blazing summer settles in, I found myself reading two essays lamenting the enormous and impossible task of doing nothing and accusing those who prefer quiet to noise as evil gentrifiers. (Both were in The Atlantic, naturally.) Allow me a brief dissent. Doing nothing […]