How Imax Won the Movies (NYM)
It’s too expensive, probably not the real thing, and increasingly the only reliable theater experience.
LANE BROWN
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July 2026
June 2026
The Mom Who Runs a Household With AI Agents (New York magazine)
Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. Then she hired a team of AI assistants.
May 2026
The Feed Is Fake (NYM)
What if every viral song, meme, movie, and celebrity drama in your feed was a stealth marketing campaign?
March 2026
What Does Extreme Wealth Do to the Brain? (NYM)
The ultrarich divulge how money bent their reality (and whether they even noticed).
December 2025
The Eyes Wide Shut Conspiracy (NYM)
Did Stanley Kubrick warn us about Jeffrey Epstein?
November 2025
A Theory of Dumb (NYM)
It’s not just screens or COVID or too-strong weed. Maybe what’s dumbing us down is unfettered access to each other.
August 2025
The Great Unbalding Draws Nearer (NYM)
Decades of science have not found a way to regrow lost hair. Until, maybe, now.
June 2025
Hollywood Has Left Los Angeles (NYM)
For years, studios found it cheaper to shoot elsewhere. And now that the industry has collapsed, elsewhere is the only place they’ll shoot.
November 2024
The Case Against Deli Meat (NYM)
They’re consistent, convenient, tasty — and at a time of recalls and outbreaks, one of the riskiest things you could eat.
August 2024
Eric Goode’s Monkey Business (NYM)
How a former nightclub impresario and reptile enthusiast became one of today’s top documentary filmmakers.
September 2023
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes (NYM)
The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.
June 2023
The Binge Purge (NYM)
TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.
March 2023
Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience (NYM)
Multiplexes are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image.
February 2023
New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much? (NYM)
Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
May 2022
In Conversation: John C. Reilly (NYM)
The actor thinks audiences just want to be surprised. He’d do (almost) anything to oblige.
May 2021
Exit Scam (Podcast)
The mysterious death of bitcoin baron Gerald Cotten — and the $250 million that vanished with him.
December 2015
62 Minutes With Tom Jones (NYM)
An unusual visit to New York magazine’s offices.
August 2015
In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino (NYM)
On the country’s legacy of white supremacy, Obama, and why he doesn’t worry about a Transformers future.
February 2014
In Conversation: Lorne Michaels (NYM)
On 40 years of Saturday Night Live.