Ray Lipstein
Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign?
Before New York’s budget deadline, a group of progressives, calling for tax increases on the wealthy, phone-banked for support among the one-to-five-per-centers in Westchester and on the Upper East Side.
Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph on Comedy and Collaboration
At the New Yorker Festival, the actresses talked with Michael Schulman about the origin of their friendship, their new production company, and playing Zelda during the pandemic.
Richard Brody’s Cinema Therapy: Films of Riotous Whimsy
The New Yorker film critic offers four playfully energetic clips, from an anti-capitalist Charlie Chaplin satire to the Nicholas Brothers’ fantastical tap sequence.
The Rise of the Quarantine Beard
During the coronavirus pandemic, facial hair has become a subject of public-health concern and a way to convey solidarity from afar.
The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture
In the new wave of coffee fanaticism, attention to tasting notes and pairings rivals that of the world of wine.
“Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze
The film shows how exhibiting one’s strength, after years of privately embodied pain, can be freeing—even euphoric. Yet it resists the urge to craft stories of simple, complete transformation.
Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign?
Before New York’s budget deadline, a group of progressives, calling for tax increases on the wealthy, phone-banked for support among the one-to-five-per-centers in Westchester and on the Upper East Side.
Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph on Comedy and Collaboration
At the New Yorker Festival, the actresses talked with Michael Schulman about the origin of their friendship, their new production company, and playing Zelda during the pandemic.
Richard Brody’s Cinema Therapy: Films of Riotous Whimsy
The New Yorker film critic offers four playfully energetic clips, from an anti-capitalist Charlie Chaplin satire to the Nicholas Brothers’ fantastical tap sequence.
The Rise of the Quarantine Beard
During the coronavirus pandemic, facial hair has become a subject of public-health concern and a way to convey solidarity from afar.
The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture
In the new wave of coffee fanaticism, attention to tasting notes and pairings rivals that of the world of wine.
“Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze
The film shows how exhibiting one’s strength, after years of privately embodied pain, can be freeing—even euphoric. Yet it resists the urge to craft stories of simple, complete transformation.