Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You may have seen the recent meme involving the phrase “the feminine urge to,” followed by some pithy example of melancholy or chaotic behavior. “The feminine urge to stop replying to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nixon often divides the world into “thinkers” and “actors,” but she is an actor with a talent for channelling thinkers.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAUDE MEDALE / CORBIS VIA GETTY When Cynthia Nixon was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Halfway through the first act of Anna Deavere Smith’s new one-woman show, “Notes from the Field,” Smith, whose plays are made up of what she calls “portraits” of Americans, takes on…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Architect of Atomic Bomb Cleared of ‘Black Mark.’ ” That was the headline last December 18th, when the Times ran a long story on page 16 reporting that Secretary of Energy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Armed with night-vision trail cameras, a large cage, and a generous cache of hot dogs, Jim Tierney embarks on nighttime stakeouts in and around New York. The opening scenes of “Shadow…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the main branch of the New York Public Library was dedicated, on May 23, 1911, John Alden Dix, the governor of New York, hailed it as “the generator of moral…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are movies about filmmaking, and novels about professors of literature, but there aren’t many comic-book biographies of cartoonists. Enter Bill Griffith, who, as the creator of a character called Zippy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in my childhood, I persuaded my parents to buy me a computer game at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Obsessed, like many kids, with ancient Egypt, I’d spent…