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Writer for New York magazine. Creator of the podcast Exit Scam.
Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. Then she hired a team of AI assistants.
What if every viral song, meme, movie, and celebrity drama in your feed was a stealth marketing campaign?
The ultrarich divulge how money bent their reality (and whether they even noticed).
Did Stanley Kubrick warn us about Jeffrey Epstein?
It’s not just screens or COVID or too-strong weed. Maybe what’s dumbing us down is unfettered access to each other.
Decades of science have not found a way to regrow lost hair. Until, maybe, now.
For years, studios found it cheaper to shoot elsewhere. And now that the industry has collapsed, elsewhere is the only place they’ll shoot.
They’re consistent, convenient, tasty — and at a time of recalls and outbreaks, one of the riskiest things you could eat.
How a former nightclub impresario and reptile enthusiast became one of today’s top documentary filmmakers.
The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.
TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.
Multiplexes are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image.
Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
And used AI to make Revolver better than ever.
The actor thinks audiences just want to be surprised. He’d do (almost) anything to oblige.
The mysterious death of bitcoin baron Gerald Cotten — and the $250 million that vanished with him.
How the Vietnam War epic Da 5 Bloods became one of his most ambitious films.
David Robert Mitchell on his ambitious, divisive, long-awaited new movie, Under the Silver Lake.
Diamond Dave on the future of Van Halen.
An unusual visit to New York magazine’s offices.
On the country’s legacy of white supremacy, Obama, and why he doesn’t worry about a Transformers future.
“Damon said, ‘Let’s just make this stupid album that people want.’”
“Half a billion.”
On 40 years of Saturday Night Live.