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January 27, 2023
Victor Navasky: A Generous, Mischievous, Endlessly Entertaining Genius
The Nation’s former publisher remembers his former partner and lifelong friend.
Hamilton Fish
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January 26, 2023
Serge Daney’s Cinema of Life and Death
The French critic and editor helped establish a critical vision of film that was both rigorous and revolutionary.
Max Nelson
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January 25, 2023
The Anxious Influences of Netflix’s “White Noise”
What has Noah Baumbach wrought in his adaptation of the 1985 postmodern novel?
Vikram Murthi
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January 23, 2023
The Strange Thrills of “The Crown”
While the infighting and personal lives of the British royals is boring, their desperate struggle to protect the monarchy makes for fine television.
Gary Younge
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January 13, 2023
Norman Fruchter Was a Giant in the Fight for Education Equity
Fruchter, who passed away recently, was also a key figure in the New Left on both sides of the Atlantic.
Alix Kates Shulman
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January 13, 2023
Babylon, Streaming Residuals, and the Boss’s Hollywood
A pending showdown with Hollywood unions might kill nostalgia for the golden age of film moguldom.
Ben Schwartz
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January 12, 2023
Fintan O’Toole on the Next Insurrection, Plus Katha Pollitt on “She Said”
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, lessons for a future coup and a review of a film about the reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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December 29, 2022
The Butler Didn’t Do It! On Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion”
While Knives Out was a brilliant inversion of the class politics of an Agatha Christie whodunit, the sequel wants to have it both ways.
Ethan Iverson
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December 28, 2022
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Wild and Kinetic EO
If Au Hasard Balthazar is austere and precise, EO is excessive and elusive.
J. Hoberman
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December 21, 2022
Conservative Jews Made a Terrible Bargain With Trump and the Right Over Israel
American Jewish leaders have spent so long genuflecting before the Christian right that even the most blatant anti-Semitism finds them unable to stand up or speak out.
Eric Alterman