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“It’s just like the movies,” Jake Paul said, not long ago. Paul is, in fact, an actor—or was, a few years ago, before quitting to concentrate on his social-media career, which he left behind to embark on an unlikely journey…

When I met Art Spiegelman, some forty years ago, back in the fall of 1976, I was blown away by his enthusiasm for comics. We were hanging out in a group of avant-garde filmmakers that coalesced around the Anthology Film…

The six-episode miniseries “Valley of the Boom” (National Geographic) carries us back to the nineteen-nineties to juggle three true tales of the dot-com bubble. The most familiar charts the ups and downs of the Netscape Communications Corporation, with its seminal…

In the beginning, there was just a toaster. Then came a KitchenAid stand mixer and its suite of narwhalian attachments: the pasta roller, the meat grinder, the citrus juicer. (Why on earth did I think I’d be calling upon a…

On the occasion of a new exhibition of Saul Steinberg’s drawings, Patterson Sims, the managing director of the Saul Steinberg Foundation, spoke with The New Yorker’s art editor, Françoise Mouly, and her husband, the graphic artist and writer Art Spiegelman.…

The original “Ant-Man,” from 2015, was a giddy delight, thanks to the inspired direction of Peyton Reed. Its domestic box-office take wasn’t much more than its budget, but international audiences turned it into a hit, giving it more than a…

A few weeks ago, I spent time with a woman my age who, like me, was born here in Southern California, grew up with many siblings and not much money, and received an annual pair of ungainly Toughskins jeans, from…