In the digital age, cookbooks have reinvented themselves.The Internet really ought to have killed cookbooks. Recipes—tidy, self-contained packets of information that for centuries were individually sw ...

“Aziz Ansari: Right Now,” directed by Spike Jonze, is conscious of the manipulative powers of performance, although Ansari is not yet clear-eyed about who it is he wants to lecture.Aziz Ansari has bee ...

The director Lynn Shelton has often relied on her actors’ improvisations, and she does so in “Sword of Trust,” which stars Marc Maron, as well.If Trump Derangement Syndrome is real—and let’s see it fo ...

The baseball player Jim Bouton, who died on Wednesday at the age of eighty, told truths that other players couldn’t risk telling.On Sunday, September 10, 1978, Jim Bouton took the mound for the Atlant ...

Bernard Rudofsky’s 1947 essay “Are Clothes Modern?” ponders the passing of fads, the ideology of luxury goods, the changeability of body taboos, and the psychic satisfaction of a chic self-portrait.Th ...

In a recent column, TAC co-founder Pat Buchanan quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to the effect that the liberal principle may be falling into disrepute: Why is liberalism failing? Several cause ...