Woody Allen
It’s Woody Allen’s Fault
Noah Baumbach’s new Frances Ha shows the fate of a generation enamored of the nebbishy narcissist
Photo of the Day (and 1977)
A photographer sets up film stills at their original locations
Allan Sherman’s Last Laugh
A thorough new biography chronicles the rise and fall of the big, Jewish self-destructive funnyman
An Interview With ‘Girls’ Star Alex Karpovsky
The actor/writer/director talks to Jewcy about anxiety and Hebrew School
Solondz’s Schlubs
The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director’s catalog of misanthropes
Polanski Making Dreyfus Movie, Hint Hint
Accused rapist, a Jew, decries ‘age-old witch hunt of a minority group’
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
- Spotlight On: Andrew Steinthal, Co-founder of ‘The Infatuation’
- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
- Susan Sontag Documentary to Debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
- This Passover, I’m Liberating Myself From My Anorexia—By Eating Chametz
