The Callousness of Mad Men .

The irresistible allure of Downton Abbey.

The magical madness of an iconic character.

At the New Yorker Festival two weeks ago, the entire cast of the TV show “Arrested Development” reunited for a group discussion. Mitchell Hurwitz, writer and creator of the show, revealed that there were plans for an abbreviated run of the series to run up to the production of the ...

Recently I went to a reading by the Russian-American writer Gary Shteyngart at Labyrinth. He
was reading from his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, a widely praised satirical novel
about the very near future. Shteyngart is a young writer. Born in 1972, he appeared this summer
in The ...

The Chicago of the last twenty years has tended to stay out of the limelight, unless it is cast as an oasis for bros through the filter of Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma), or functions as the setting for Gotham in The Dark Knight. This is where The Chicago Code steps in, and with the city’s future at the ballot next week, it is rather timely.

Recently, The Candie’s Foundation, which works to educate America about the dangers of teen pregnancy, released a public service announcement featuring Bristol Palin and Mike “The Situation.” In this two-minute video, the pop icons discuss the necessity for safe sex, as related to both abstinence and condoms. At the ...

Sarah Palin is the politician Jonathan Swift would have imagined for this century if he were living in it. An attractive woman with some sort of strictly defined set of morals, she has exploded onto the scene because she is a masterful spin doctor, a skilled manipulator of her image ...

This review will be biased. It will be biased for two reasons. One: there are few things in the world I would rather do than Bryan Greenberg. Two: I'm from New York. These are important biases because Greenberg plays the protagonist, Ben Epstein, a jeans folder at Barney's ...