Bruce Bawer
Directed by Bennett Miller from a script by Dan Futterman, the film Capote, which turned 20 years old this year,…
Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design By Walter Murch Faber & Faber, 368 pages, $45…
I’m sorry to revisit the New Yorker so soon after eviscerating its Netflix tribute to itself, but David Remnick, that…
I totally understand why so many people think it’s absurd to spend more than a minute thinking about the murders…
In the wake of the shocking double murder last Sunday of the celebrated director Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally,…
The New Yorker was founded in 1925 as a humor weekly — a whimsical little Roaring Twenties bauble written largely…
Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face By Scott Eyman Simon and Schuster, 468 pages, $30 It’s not certain when Joan Crawford…
Josephine Baker’s Secret War By Hanna Diamond Yale University Press, 352 pages, $35 Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman…
The Sandersons Fail Manhattan By Scott Johnston St. Martin’s Press, 352 pages, $29 The title character of Frank Perry’s 1970…
