Top of the Stack
A Comedian of Guilt
“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth looms as a wild blue shocker and the American novel of the sixties.
The Front Page
Catherine the Great
A visit with Catherine Deneuve, the face of France.
The Stacks Chat: Derek Cianfrance
“I want to shine a light on ignored lives.”
Cher And Altman on Broadway
Welcome Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
The Many Faces of Arianna
The adventures of a modern power broker.
The Devil in Long Island
SATAN or SATIN? Strange things were going on in Long Island. But when America laughs at Long Island, it’s laughing in the face of its own onrushing future.
The Human Nature
What goes around comes around.
Boy, 8
A death in the family.
On Revision
Revise now, before it’s too late.
Have I Got Glamour?
“What has Hedy Lamarr got that I haven’t got? I mean, outside of money, youth, beauty and Gene Markey?”
Swifty Lazar Is a Big Deal
“You do know what ‘Aquascutum’ means, don’t you?”
Remembering Gil Schwartz (and Stanley Bing)
The funniest, smartest, and kindest man has left the room.
Shakespeare in Rewrite
After four hundred years, scholars want to change the way we read “Hamlet.”