Rex Reed Made the Critic a Public Character
Rex Reed mattered because he made criticism visible, vain, funny, cruel, and impossible to mistake for stenography.
Anna Weber
Bureau: Berlin
Whitney White's Tony Record Carries the Memory of Liberation
White's Tony milestone matters because Liberation is a play about how women remember together and build power from that memory.
Hannah Natanson's Privacy Fight Nears the DOJ Deadline
The Justice Department has six days to decide whether it will fight the reporter-device ruling it has not yet touched.
Disney's ABC License Window Keeps Narrowing
Disney's ABC renewal fight is now a culture story because broadcast licenses have become political leverage.