Tom Zito
Tom Zito is a serial entrepreneur. He came to California to report a piece on startups for the New Yorker, but launched a company instead. In addition to the New Yorker, he has written for the Washington Post, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Life, Newsweek, and many other publications, and has started eight companies.
Light in the Lew Archer Novels
Ross Macdonald’s work with setting and environmental themes in noir works like The Underground Man is underappreciated.
‘One Battle After Another’ Revives Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new action film draws from the California novel.
An Adulterous Couple
Gary Krist reconstructs the story of a brazen crime in San Francisco.
Griffin Dunne Stars in ‘Ex-Husbands’
The new comedy about fathers and sons demonstrates the power of the indie film.
‘Megalopolis’ Now
Our reviewer read Coppola’s script 25 years ago. The director’s creative vision remains in focus.
Reckoning with the West(ern)
Directors from John Ford to Clint Eastwood to Jane Campion have reimagined the genre to better reflect history—and changing social values.
Look Back on Anger
An appreciation of the late filmmaker Kenneth Anger makes the unlikely case that he was as influential as Orson Welles.
Jann Wenner Doesn’t Get That He’s Doing Just Fine
In his autobiography, the Rolling Stone founder name-drops countless celebrities, sings his own praises, and, somehow, still sells himself short.
From Chaos, Coppola’s Almost Perfect Film
Mark Seal’s Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli recounts the making of the novel and movie The Godfather.
Larry McMurtry: The Last Bookseller (1936–2021)
A Washington bookstore was the Texas writer’s most enduring love.
La-La Land’s Hotel
Rebooting Steve Jobs
Should his legacy be the iPhone, the company he built, or a daughter he denied fathering?
