“He’s got it all,” the novel’s Amazon description reads. “The stunning good looks, the six-pack abs…the perfect record as a hard-balling, take-no-guff U.S. Senator. So why won’t he run for president?…Why’s he being such a Tedbenezer Scruz?”
This week, as the media explored the unholy alliance between politics and sensationalist right-wing journalism, I took it on as my civic responsibility to consume bottom-of-the-barrel tabloids. On Wednesday, the former Playboy model Karen…
I discovered funeral-industry trade podcasts during a dark night of the soul. I’m allergic to wine, but I’d been drinking it anyway, and as I lay in bed feeling my heart thrash and my sinuses cloud, I contemplated the fact that I now have a …
Shepard’s women are the most dynamic, competent, and selfless characters in his plays, but only if you see their context.
The novelist Paula Fox has died at ninety-three; in 2013, we honored her with our Hadada Award for lifetime achievement.
The enlightened being is free. The yard boy felt that he had been enlightened for about two months, at the most.
Gregory Crewdson is a photographer, but he calls himself a storyteller. He has spoken of his belief that “every artist has one central story to tell,” and that the artist’s work is “to tell and retell that story over and over again,” to dee…