In Like Flynn

In Like Flynn

  When Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl came out in the summer of 2012, it was an instant success, and we don’t have a lot of those in the book world these days. For books not starring dragons or wizards, or books not part of a series, or books written for anyone...
New Girl and Millenial Angst

New Girl and Millenial Angst

A recent debate held by Intelligence Squared argued a motion called “Millenials Don’t Stand a Chance.” In it, the usual charges were lobbed at millennials—defined by the debate as Americans born between the years 1980 and 1999, which seemed an awfully wide gap to me,...
Mad as Hell

Mad as Hell

Last summer, Jon Stewart took a leave of absence from The Daily Show so that he could helm a film project, and the producers were in a bind: how do you continue The Daily Show with Jon Stewart…without Jon Stewart? They could, of course, have simply put the show on...