In Vanity Fair in 1987, Keaton told Joan Juliet Buck, “I was always pretty religious as a kid, but I had trouble with Jesus early on because I couldn’t understand that there was a son of God here...
Still, over time, I earned a reputation. “Joe’s straight,” guys would say, with some mix of mockery and begrudging respect. The prison system assigned each of us a security designation, based in part on our disciplinary records; after...
“The face was not important in the history of nude photography,” Simpson said, in an interview not too long ago. And what has Simpson used to obscure the faces of the subjects in her photographs? That mask we...
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics:...
Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” certainly encourages that impression. It’s perhaps her biggest platform since the hit series “Parks and Recreation,” in which...
When the children’s author Kate DiCamillo was a girl, she would listen over and over to a record of the Brothers Grimm story “The Juniper Tree”—in which, among other terrors, a child is decapitated. “I was not a...
Few musical events in recent memory have promised more mayhem than this one: the first major headlining tour by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper of uncommon power and dexterity who is known to the disproportionately young and...
Plus he’s hot. He’s a hot Catholic priest who, in my mind, I was picturing Joe Alwyn the whole time.I want to see the portraits Wyeth makes of him. Ugh, I bet they’re beautiful.The book was almost called...
He’s a good-looking young man, slouching on a bed in his Brooklyn apartment, taking a selfie. Oh, has he pulled out all the stops. He has mounted an old-fashioned plate camera atop a tripod. He has set up...