- Michael Moore has teased and bullied his way to some brilliant highs in his career as a political entertainer, but he scrapes bottom in his new documentary…
- LARISSA MACFARQUAR ON MOORE (2004)
THE THEATRE
Gods and
Dolls
- by John Lahr
- Sarah Ruhl reimagines the Orpheus myth.
- BROWSE THEATRE LISTINGS
ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS
Promises, Promises
- by Ken Auletta
- What might the Wall Street Journal become if Rupert Murdoch owned it?
- AUDIO: Auletta on the Journal
FICTION
The Mahogany Elephant
- by Maxim Biller
- He waited for her for three months.
- Q. & A. with Biller
- Hedge funds go to great lengths to maintain their mystique. The public, denied information about the industry’s methods, has focussed instead on the conspicuous spending it has enabled, seeing in the life styles of the funds’ managers proof of their ingenuity…
- CASSIDY ON LONG-TERM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (1999)
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
Making the
Manny
- by Lauren Collins
- Can socialites spoof themselves?
- More Talk of the Town
BOOKS
Laissez-faire Is More
- by John Updike
- A revisionist history of the Depression.
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