Sara Jane Moore's obituary is now in the Nashville Banner. Bluesky friends, who else here can bring you breaking news of an attempted Presidential assassin's demise? RIP. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/24/s...

Hearing through the grapevine that Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate Gerald Ford, died today. I have a weird family connection to her: she was once married to my mom's cousin's wife's father.

The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

The New Yorker ain’t capitulating to shit.

Some good news. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/n...

Cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Had a dream that Anna Wintour showed me how to hold a jacket over my arm with casual indifference.

The New Yorker's centennial style issue has a fun photo shoot recreating classic covers with the likes of Spike Lee, Julio Torres, Ariana DeBose, Sadie Sink, and Cole Escola. I wrote a lil intro. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

First Cole Escola beats George Clooney for a Tony. Now Jeff Hiller beats Harrison Ford for an Emmy. A chaotic gay moon is rising!

In other news...I strongly recommend Julio Torres's "Color Theories" off Broadway. No one thinks the way he does, and it's on par with his brilliant HBO special "My Favorite Shapes." I'm still thinking about his take on lilac vs. purple: "Lilac is being a mom. Purple is being a stepmother."

This I'm excited about: On 10/21, I'll be in conversation with JOHN WATERS at 92Y, in an event that includes readings from his screenplays (cast tba). You can come see it or stream from home. Filthy! www.92ny.org/event/the-jo...

I *loved* Twinless and was completely shocked by its twists, so maybe don't read this review in its entirety...

Received this e-mail today. Huge if true!

i watched this last year and remember thinking in real time i was seeing the greatest thing i’ve ever seen

I know we hate “circling back” etc but this is a crazy way to start a PR pitch.

Here's an audio version of this story, on this week's New Yorker Radio Hour. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

I believe this is the theater where, in 2003, some stoned classmates and I decided to ask the box office, one by one, for tickets to “A Mighty WIND” (pronounced as in “wind a watch”) with straight faces. We got absolutely no reaction.

I stand by “assless chaps.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

For this week's Talk of the Town, I spoke to Fred Armisen about his new album of sound effects (including "Tentative Sawing"), and we did some fieldwork to capture the sounds of midtown Manhattan. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

At a time when other publications are eliminating critics, The New Yorker created this stunning portfolio of portraits of our critics, photographed by Richard Renaldi. Critics can be stars if you believe in what they do. Looking good, my friends and colleagues! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Bug” and “Proof” were earth-shattering theatergoing experiences for me in the early 2000s. Excited to revisit them both on Broadway this season. #thereaintnobugs #iwroteit

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips announces he has taken a buyout and the Trib is eliminating his post. Unless I am missing someone I believe this leaves the nation's third-largest city without a single full-time film writing gig.

But now I’m remembering that one of the show’s signature moments was Carrie peeing the bed, AND Harry peed his pants this season, so maybe this is where we were headed all along. I couldn’t help but wonder…was this whole series a golden shower?

I…did not expect the finale of “And Just Like That” to feature quite so much pee and poop.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

This piece by @michaelschulman.bsky.social on Wesley LePatner, whose life and his ran on parallel tracks, is shattering and stirring. Please read. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...

Last week, I became someone who knew someone killed in a mass shooting. Here's my remembrance of Wesley, across the decades. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...

The New Yorker Festival just announced its first slate of events, and I'm excited to be doing two on Sunday, Oct. 26th. In the evening, I'll be talking with Jonathan Groff, who'll also be singing some tunes... / festival.newyorker.com/event-detail...

This strikes me as really sick, for some reason. A woman is dead and somehow it was too much trouble to get a human to think about it rather than just have a robot scrape other people’s reporting

I met Wesley when we were four years old, and she's the only person I can say I went to nursery school, elementary school, high school, AND college with—half our lives overlapped. /

This week for Talk of the Town, I talked to Paul Walter Hauser as he got a vitamin IV drip. This is my 200th Talk piece, AND it's my birthday, so if you'll indulge me I'm going to share ten of my favorites from the Schulman archive... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Finally! I’ve been waiting to find out which take they used…

Sounds like there’s a new David Geffen School of DRAMA. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Shelley Duvall melts indifference. You're unable to repress your response; you go right to her in delight, saying "I'm yours." (1974)

I'm late to reading and sharing this personal essay by Hilton Als, but it's a stunner: Hilton at the height of his considerable powers of reflection, full of holy-shit sentences. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As I remember it, the #CancelColbert firestorm of 2014 helped popularize the term "cancel culture," which then fueled a moral panic that propelled the fascist right, which is now the force that seems to have actually canceled Colbert. Am I getting this right? www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

The new "Oh, Mary!" cast is off the charts: Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie and Jenn Harris join Jinkx Monsoon in August. Wild, especially for the Jenn Harris uber-fans among us. You know who you are (and I probably know you, too). Classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Hf...

A teenager with Weird Al hair just sprayed me with a super-soaker in the middle of Times Square. Gave him the finger. New York City, baby!

Took me half a day to realize that the Putin-esque dictator in "Superman" is Zlatko Burić, who was SO good as the Russian capitalist in "Triangle of Sadness." This face!

It’s 1994. A time traveller from the future warns you that someday an actor from the Flintstones movie will be deemed an enemy of the state. Who’s your first guess?

“Superman” was silly but I enjoyed the wokeness. (And the dog.)

Now that Lisa Todd Wexley has a teenage son who insists on singing show tunes at karaoke to everyone's annoyance, I *finally* know which Sex and the City girl I am.

Yes to all this, but…longtime watchers of “Roseanne”/“The Conners” will recall that there is one reality in which Dan dies, one in which Roseanne dies, and one in which both live and win the lottery. www.vulture.com/article/and-...

Having a very “We’re about to find out who would have hidden Anne Frank in their attic” paranoid-spiral 4th of July. And to you!

For this week's Talk of the Town, I took a tour of the new and renovated Delacorte, home of Shakespeare in the Park. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy 99th birthday to Mel Brooks! Here’s a nice long chat I had with him when he was a lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down

Loved talking all things diva on the Critics at Large podcast, from Maria Callas to Miss Piggy to Patti LuPone to Nicki Minaj. What makes a diva, and can they survive in our more PR-conscious era? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Carrie (fishing): And just like that, I'm fishing. WHO WRITES THIS STUFF

Tonight at 7 p.m. I'll be introducing "The Deer Hunter" at Film Forum, part of their series on John Cazale, the great, undersung character actor (and paramour of the young Meryl Streep). I wrote a bit about Cazale and the series here. www.newyorker.com/culture/goin...