Iris Smyles Is Trying to Be a Human Again
In Iris Smyles' new book "Dating Tips for the Unemployed," the main character 'Iris Smyles' embarks on a personal journey (modeled on Homer's "Odyssey") that involves plenty of emotional shipwrecks an...
30 Aug 201644min
Kevin Kline Takes a Bow, Several Times
Kevin Kline is one of the most acclaimed entertainers working today. So how did the kid from St. Louis end up with an Oscar, two Tony awards, and a career that has intersected with those of Meryl Stre...
16 Aug 201653min
Nuclear Safety Isn't Just About Who Has the Codes
Gregory Jaczko didn't grow up aspiring to work on the country's central nuclear energy oversight body, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He had a freshly-minted Ph.D. in physics when he received...
2 Aug 201648min
Viggo Mortensen, From Warrior King to Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen became a global star as a valiant crusading king in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. But then he deftly complicated this virtuous image with a series of dark, dense cha...
19 Juli 201653min
Michael Eisner Wants a Good Movie to End Quickly
Michael Eisner started out in show business the same way everybody else does: by taking tickets at the studio door. But most ticket takers don't end up as epochal media magnates. Eisner rose to promin...
5 Juli 201651min
Joe Dallesandro Thought Warhol Made Soup
Joe Dallesandro became famous as a shaggy-haired blond Adonis in the iconoclastic and transgressive Andy Warhol-produced films Flesh, Trash, and Heat, in which he helped to rewrite the rules for onscr...
21 Juni 201657min
Netflix's 'Making a Murderer' Makes a Star
The massively popular Netflix series Making a Murderer explores the circumstances surrounding a homicide in small-town Wisconsin, and highlights the ways the criminal justice system failed defendants ...
7 Juni 201635min
Michael Pollan Tried to Blow Up a Woodchuck
Michael Pollan says that every writer has a "final question," an irreducible topic to which all their work tends. For Pollan, that topic has always been nature — specifically, the ways in which the na...
24 Maj 201643min
