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We Can’t All Be Geniuses October 21, 2024
I know I’ve already mentioned Ann Powers’s book, Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, but it’s on my mind again this week: specifically, her attempt to unpick the use of the word “genius”. She has some really interesting things to say, and I’m n...
Blind, but Not Mute October 14, 2024
Progressivism is a mental disorder—that, at any rate, is the verdict one is tempted to reach upon finishing Emily Witt’s striking new memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown.Witt is a reporter for The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn. Somehow, she is...
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ October 07, 2024
Has there ever been an artist with worse judgment about his own talents and abilities than Francis Ford Coppola? Ever? The greatest realist in the history of cinema has spent his creative life consumed, for some reason, with making pictures that expl...
His Back Pages October 04, 2024
Graydon never told us he once slept in a boxcar. Long before he co-founded Spy magazine, became the arbiter of wit and glamour as the editor of Vanity Fair, and went on to create our digital weekly, Air Mail, Graydon worked for an extended summer sti...
'High Potential' and the Pleasures of Letting TV Be TV October 03, 2024
If you watched the Emmys, you might have seen one of the nearly incessant advertisements for ABC’s new detective procedural, High Potential, starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson as a brassy single mother of three who also happen...
