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Adam Sternbergh

  1. The Ethan Hawke Actors StudioWhat other Hollywood star gets to direct Sam Shepard plays (starring longtime, less famous friends who don’t hate him), become a serious theater […]
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    How Team Coco Channels Our Recession AngerThe NBC versus Conan drama has become an allegory for the financial crisis and the populist revolt that followed it.
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    Go Forth to Fox, Young Conan: Why the Tonight Show Was Never a Good FitHe can check manning the ‘Tonight’ desk off his wish list and go do something great.
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    5 Obsolete Film Clichés Technology Won’t KillIf directors buy a world with GPS, where would we get our next ‘Blair Witch Project’?
  5. Aliens and Ear Worms on the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!Usually, as Oscar season approaches, we’re buzzing over a half-dozen contenders. But Up in the Air peaked too early, Nine was more like a two, a […]
  6. 21. Because We Fight Over PoetryWhen you pick a fight with a poet, you expect to win. You are likely to be outmatched, however, if the poet you are up against is Alice Quinn. Q […]
  7. Ten Long Years Ago…Remembering what life was like on the eve of the new century.
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    V: Knocked UpThere’s a lot at stake in this week’s installment: Most episodes just have to lure you back next week. This one has to lure you back next year.
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    V: Snakes (Still) in the GrassOnly one episode before the hiatus and we’ve had not a single guinea pig devoured in someone’s huge, yawning maw.
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    V Series Premiere: Instant EdificationThe aliens are greeted with a prolonged ovation, as though the entire planet had just watched Nathan Lane on Broadway.
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    Know Your V History: Sternbergh on the Original MiniseriesClearly the most ambitious, daring, and artistically successful three-and-a-half-hour Holocaust-allegory-featuring-evil-lizard-people show that’s ever aired on TV.
  12. The Persistence of Mass CultureFrom Obama to the iPad, we need something to chew over, even in our niches.
  13. Et Tu, Guido?The sappy truth about Jersey Shore.
  14. Are We Running Out of Talent?Reality TV’s new crisis.
  15. What’s Wrong With Gentrification?The displacement myth.
  16. McNally ZoneOur real theme restaurants.
  17. 76 Minutes With Jonathan Safran FoerDog-walking with the novelist and vegetarian polemicist, as he wrestles with questions of cruelty, identity, and Anthony Bourdain’s unethical sh […]
  18. And Now a Word From the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!By this time you’ve finally gotten to see the shows you’d spent weeks (or months) hearing about—Glee! Cougar Town! That one with Chevy Chase!—so […]
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    Dexter Season Premiere: Infant DevelopmentHas our show come down with Cousin Oliver syndrome?
  20. Born CheapFor 300 years, we’ve been preaching thrift as a virtue. But what if it’s something that’s inherited rather than learned?
  21. The Bit FactoriesThese days, to make it in late night, you’ve got to be watched during the day.
  22. The Coy ExhibitionistJonathan Ames has made a career out of self-exposure. Or so he would like you to believe.
  23. Mark Your Calendar. All of It.Your day-by-day planner to three full months of premieres, debuts, and talked-about events in the most culturally overstuffed city in the world.
  24. A TanifestoBronzed rebellion.
  25. The GodfatherJohn Cazale got famous playing Fredo Corleone. Was he also the greatest actor of his generation?
  26. Popcorn Season on the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!Even though no one’s yet read Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice,’ we’re already expecting the movie adaptation to sweep the Oscars, circa 2012.
  27. ArrivalsA recent poll found that even in these times, almost half of young America wants to move to New York. On the following pages we spoke to 160 peo […]
  28. Pleased to Meet YouTen new comedians that funny people find funny.
  29. The Post-Hughes TeenagerThe fate of Ferris.
  30. Out of the BoxBen Silverman’s unrealized revolution.
  31. No Revenge of the Nerds?The wages of popularity.
  32. Spam HaikuWhy 60 percent of Twitterers quit.
  33. Speaking RoleThe art of accepting effectively.
  34. Field of DreamsFantasy baseball has never felt so glorious.
  35. Tyranny of the FanboysYes, resistance is futile.
  36. The Politics of TMIIt used to be that a clownish past could disqualify you from office. Not anymore. But it still shouldn’t get you elected.
  37. Mincing MinstrelsyAre we laughing with Brüno or at him?
  38. Timing Is EverythingThe studiously ambidextrous, palindrome-spewing, fractal-loving, perfect-joke-crafting Demetri Martin finally arrives.
  39. New Provocateurs: Casey and Van NeistatVan and Casey Neistat electrocute pickles. They resurrect goldfish. They steal bikes. (Okay, just one bike, and it was Van’s bike to begin with. […]
  40. Snark AttackIn a new book, David Denby rages against mean-spirited humor but misses the point.
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    Dexter Season Finale Ominous for All the Wrong ReasonsThis is the way the season ends: not with a bang, but a wedding.
  42. 52. Because Even in These Times, People Are Still Opening StoresOnce upon a time, back in 2003, the economy was booming, the forecast was sunny, and Andi Marie Jones was a 28-year-old event planner dealing wi […]
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    Dexter: So, That Happened …Is it considered a spoiler if you reveal a plot detail that everyone saw coming for weeks and weeks?
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    Dexter: Attention, Emmy Committee …We can’t say we’re loving this season, but ho boy, are we ever being treated to some tasty, grade-A acting.
  45. The ‘Mad Men’ DilemmaFirst The Sopranos. Then The Wire. Why you might be suffering from Quality Show Fatigue.
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    Dexter: The Skinner Revealed!This season has been all about Dexter’s crash course in parenting. First, he learned he’s going to be a dad. This week, Miguel emerged as his full-blown sulky wayward teenage son.
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    Dexter Suddenly Gets StupidThis week we see a side of Dexter we haven’t seen before: teacher. Also: moron.
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    The Best Episode of Dexter … Ever!What does it mean to be a friend of a serial killer? Find out!
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    ‘Dexter’: Cops, and Writers, Start Connecting the DotsDots one through four.
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    Dexter: Now Even Creepier!Everyone suspects everyone else of not being quite what they seem.
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