News
The Week That PerishedSPECIAL “DELIVER US FROM CHAOS” EDITION The past week brought a near-catastrophe in... |
Relationships
The Art of Not Working Yourself to DeathThough it’s medically possible to work oneself to death—especially among the... |
Borderland
Letters of a Screenwriter in TroubleDear Gato, This week it’s all about INT. THE DOGHOUSE. Yes, we know it well.... |
Living the Dream
10 Problems With Having Immigrant ParentsI’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated... |
Derbtown
Three’s a CharmProbably it’s just my simpleminded arithmomania, but years ending in the numeral... |
Obit
A Farewell to BunkyThe only man I know who belonged to more gentlemen’s clubs than Eddie Ulmann was the... |
Obit
Dancing on a Hero’s GraveAs a college student I would buy copies of The New Yorker to sample the sparkling prose... |
Hollywood
The Importance of Being Earnestly BitchyThe golden age of television sitcoms petered out in the late 1990s when NBC couldn’t... |
News
The Week That PerishedLast Week’s Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories HATEFUL COMMENTS FROM... |
Borderland
Letters From a Screenwriter in TroubleDear Gato, I’m mindful of the time we were rechristened. In Puerto Vallarta. The... |
High Life
Une Étoile est NéeCANNES—It’s raining, the stars are hiding, the hacks and paparazzi are waterlogged... |
Relationships
Gays Didn’t Kill Marriage, Divorce DidOn Tuesday, French iconoclast Dominique Venner blew his head off inside the Cathedral... |
By the sword
The Freedom of DisunityLast week I gave a talk on my pet topic of bullfighting in front of various politicos... |
Cultural Caviar
The Italian Invasion of American CultureEver since Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings in northern... |