Alex Barasch A culture editor and horror-movie aficionado.

The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.

The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his ...

Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly ...

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the ...

The Netflix documentary, out on December 5th, explores the magazine’s first century and the lead-up to its 100th Anniversary Issue.

The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to ...

It does not feel like a place a human being should be inside. In fact, they try to limit the amount that people go into them.

As someone said on the way home from the opening, “Don’t tell me that those three musicians who were hired to play for the dinner didn’t have interesting lives, too!” For the purposes of the theatre, ...

Generally plausible demonstrations of the Mozart G-minor symphony and the “Meistersinger” prelude made up the rest of the entertainment and indicated that the Association is well on its way to another ...

THE portraits by Miss Maria von Kammerer, a young Hungarian, at the Jacques Seligmann Galleries might be taken as the text for a sermon on the curse of talent and success. The pictures are done in a ...

The beating that Brown gave Harvard, when compared with the less emphatic beating that Brown, gave Yale, does suggest, though, that Yale’s principal difficulty this season has been the teams it has ...