Joan Semmel Takes an Unflinching View of Her Own Body
This article appeared in the New York Times. JOAN SEMMEL WAS defiant from the start, not the sort to go with the flow even as a young...
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Daphne Merkin
Dream Girl
Much as we might rag on it, the awful truth must be looked at head-on: Reality TV, that fiction of verisimilitude, is, even for people...
Mike Tyson Moves to the Suburbs
The gold caps on his teeth are gone, as are the frenzied trappings of celebrity: the nonstop partying, the cars, the jewelry, the pet...
Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Small Boy Chased By Furies
I first noticed Philip Seymour Hoffman in a big way when I was reviewing movies for this magazine and spotted him—I referred to him as...
In Search of the Skeptical, Hopeful, Mystical Jew That Could Be Me
What brought me to the small, neat office in the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles at the tacky southern edge of Beverly Hills where the...
The Wild Bunch: About the Kardashians,
Are you keeping up with the family? Last night I dreamed I was a Kardashian. Maybe it was my close-to- midnight reading of “Kardashian...
Introducing Soon-Yi Previn
As controversies tumbled around her, the daughter of Mia Farrow and wife of Woody Allen stayed silent for decades. No more. Once, she was...
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