Noah Baumbach’s Unhappy Families
In his review of “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the New Yorker critic Anthony Lane paraphrased no less an author than Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families are alike,” Lane wrote, but “every ...
21 Marras 201725min
Will the Harvey Weinstein Scandal Change America?
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein have opened the floodgates for women in other industries and walks of life to go public with claims of sexual misconduct—and to be heard instead of dismissed. ...
17 Marras 201730min
Love, War, and the Magical Lamb-Brain Sandwiches of Aleppo, Syria
When Adam Davidson was a reporter in Baghdad during the Iraq War, he started dating a fellow-reporter, Jen Banbury, of Salon. On a holiday break, they left the war zone and traveled to Aleppo, Syria—t...
14 Marras 201726min
Tina Brown on Vanity Fair, the Eighties, and Harvey Weinstein
Tina Brown is a legend in New York publishing. She was barely thirty years old when she was recruited from London to take over a foundering Vanity Fair. Take over she did, becoming one of the power ce...
10 Marras 201729min
Voter Fraud: A Threat to Democracy, or a Myth?
Donald Trump memorably claimed, without a shred of evidence, that millions of votes cast by undocumented immigrants had given Hillary Clinton the popular vote in the 2016 election. More circumspect co...
7 Marras 201728min
Jeffrey Toobin on “The Most Important Supreme Court Case in Decades”
Jeffrey Toobin tells David Remnick that, despite the mounting indictments against members of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign, Trump is almost certainly safe from impeachment. Republican House mem...
3 Marras 201727min
“Slut: The Play,” an Empowering Story for Young Women
In “Slut: The Play,” Katie Cappiello captures the trauma of sexual assault, based on the stories of teen-agers in her theatre company. (Hilton Als wrote about the play for the magazine.) A member of t...
31 Loka 201734min
How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses
When OxyContin came on the market, in 1995, physicians were understandably wary of the addictive potential of a powerful new opioid. As Patrick Radden Keefe reports, the manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, a...
27 Loka 201721min
