Alec Baldwin on Life Inside "The Bubble"
Tonight at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, the New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy and the “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin had a wide-ranging conversation that …
View ArticlePatricia Clarkson’s “Martin Scorsese Dance”
Tonight at the SVA Theatre, the actress Patricia Clarkson made mention of her small but memorable role in Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” Though …
View ArticleSteve Carell on Fame, Comedy, and an “Anchorman” Sequel
This morning, some four hundred fans made the trek to the far west side of Manhattan to hear Steve Carell in conversation with the New Yorker staff writer …
View ArticleA Bittersweet Ending
Last month, Elizabeth Goodyear passed away at the age of a hundred and three. Goodyear, who lived in Murray Hill, first gained notoriety in 2008, when the …
View ArticleThe Exchange: Judd Apatow on Comedy, Kids’ Books, and Why He’ll Never Finish...
I’m a big admirer of Dave Eggers—his writing and his charity work. I see myself as a much weaker Dave Eggers: I am not as good a writer and I don’t …
View ArticleThe Exchange: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party’s “Dangerous Anti-Pluralism”
This post is part of The New Yorker’s ongoing coverage of the midterm elections. It's been around eighteen months since the Tea Party movement began. On…
View ArticleThe Exchange: R. Dwayne Betts on Prison, Poetry, and Justice
On Saturday, December 7, 1996, a skinny sixteen-year-old named R. Dwayne Betts headed to the Springfield Mall, in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, with a …
View ArticleThe Orchid Keef
Last week, the Daily News broke what may be the biggest literary scandal of the year. Marie d’Origny, deputy director of the New York Public Library’s…
View Article“The Great Gatsby”: Now in 3-D!
Earlier this week, the Australian director Baz Luhrmann told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that he was thinking of filming his …
View ArticleCompetitive Reading
As its name suggests, the new television show “Portlandia” is set in Portland, that rainy bastion of free public transportation, adult kickball …
View ArticleBookspotting: India
This weekend was a big one for India, which scored its first victory in the Cricket World Cup since 1983 (Roger Angell just posted on the game over at News…
View ArticleMasters and Servants
On Sunday night, the British period piece “Upstairs Downstairs” finished its three-episode run on PBS. The series, a followup to the much beloved …
View ArticleThe Scene at Ground Zero
When I arrived at Ground Zero shortly after midnight on Sunday, a few hundred people had already gathered at the corner of Vesey and Church Streets, the …
View ArticleAsk an Academic: The Sixties Underground Press
John McMillian’s new book, “Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America,” is a lively account of …
View ArticleMy Mom, the (Literary) Style Icon
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. To commemorate the holiday, I enlisted the help of Piper Weiss, the author of the charming new blog-to-book “My Mom Style …
View ArticleJoan Didion’s “Tiny, Tiny World”
A few weeks back, someone posted this wonderful, though entirely too brief, interview with Joan Didion on Twitter. From sometime in the seventies, the …
View ArticleWendi Murdoch, Chick-Lit Heroine?
Whatever happens to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire, Tuesday’s colorful parliamentary hearings may yet provide an unexpected boost to the publishing …
View ArticleA Few Things Jeremy Irons Doesn’t Like
Today’s Bravura Television conversation, between the New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend and the actors Edie Falco, Jeremy Irons, William H. Macy, and …
View ArticleAmy Poehler: Why Television is Good for Women
Amy Poehler, the star of the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” doesn’t buy into the conventional wisdom that television is inferior to film. As she …
View ArticleTen Things You Didn’t Know About “Arrested Development”
For the first time since “Arrested Development” was cancelled in 2005, the entire cast assembled today for a Bluth Family Reunion moderated by New …
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