Ian Buruma, the top editor of The New York Review of Books, has left his post in the wake of his defense of publishing an essay by disgraced Canadian ex-radio host Jian Ghomeshi.
The exit follows a similar, widely criticized radio defense by the publisher of Harper’s magazine of a piece written by accused #MeToo perpetrator John Hockenberry.
The Ghomeshi piece is billed on the cover of the august periodical’s current issue, which explores the theme “The Fall of Men.” Headlined “Reflections From a Hashtag,” the essay aims to shed light on the fate of men who have been accused of misdeeds and the reputational price they pay in the #MeToo era. Ghomeshi is known for co-founding the Canadian public radio show Q, a Fresh Air-like program featuring interviews with a cross-section of cultural and political figures. It airs nightly in New York on Wnyc and on dozens of other U.
The exit follows a similar, widely criticized radio defense by the publisher of Harper’s magazine of a piece written by accused #MeToo perpetrator John Hockenberry.
The Ghomeshi piece is billed on the cover of the august periodical’s current issue, which explores the theme “The Fall of Men.” Headlined “Reflections From a Hashtag,” the essay aims to shed light on the fate of men who have been accused of misdeeds and the reputational price they pay in the #MeToo era. Ghomeshi is known for co-founding the Canadian public radio show Q, a Fresh Air-like program featuring interviews with a cross-section of cultural and political figures. It airs nightly in New York on Wnyc and on dozens of other U.
- 9/19/2018
- by Dade Hayes and Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s day two of Star Trek Week and today we’ll be focusing on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Tng) seemed like a long shot, no one had a lot of faith that it would catch on. The Original Series was so great and had developed such a loyal following that people doubted whether Gene Roddenberry could capture that lightening in a bottle again.
The first episode, Encounter at Farpoint, premiered on September 28, 1987 to huge ratings which proved that Gene had done it again. The first two seasons of the show weren’t bad, but it wouldn’t be until season three (a symptom of most post-tos series) that the show really took off and became the epic space adventure we all know and love. Tng lasted seven seasons for a total of 178 episodes and ended its run with “All Good Things” on May...
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Tng) seemed like a long shot, no one had a lot of faith that it would catch on. The Original Series was so great and had developed such a loyal following that people doubted whether Gene Roddenberry could capture that lightening in a bottle again.
The first episode, Encounter at Farpoint, premiered on September 28, 1987 to huge ratings which proved that Gene had done it again. The first two seasons of the show weren’t bad, but it wouldn’t be until season three (a symptom of most post-tos series) that the show really took off and became the epic space adventure we all know and love. Tng lasted seven seasons for a total of 178 episodes and ended its run with “All Good Things” on May...
- 5/14/2013
- by Kevin Fraser
- City of Films
Hunger Games fans, are you unsatisfied with this ho-hum world full of naturally occurring animals? Well, never fear! According to a New York Times article, the books’ symbolic mockingjay — the Capitol-flouting hybrid of a mockingbird and the fictional jabberjay spy bird — isn’t inconceivable. “The tools needed to modify organisms are already widely dispersed in industry and beyond. Do-it-yourself biology is growing,” writes James Gorman. He cited Freeman Dyson of the Princeton-based Institute for Advanced Study (former home to Albert Einstein), who “envisioned the tools of biotechnology spreading to everyone, including pet breeders and children, and leading to ‘an explosion...
- 5/15/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
From Outside's visit to the site of the Chernobyl meltdown to Vanity Fair's inquiry into Mel Gibson's troubled private life, The Daily Beast picks our favorite longform journalism from around the Web this week.
This weekly column is The Daily Beast's contribution to the growing Longreads community on Twitter, where fans of longform journalism collect and share their favorite stories. Follow along through the hashtag #longreads, and visit Longreads.com and Longform.org for suggestions throughout the week. To take these stories on the go, we recommend using smartphone applications such as Instapaper or Read It Later. You can download either at your mobile phone's application store. To send us suggestions, tweet the story to @thedailybeast on Twitter with the hashtag #longreads.
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Best Journalism
1. "Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden" Henry Shukman, Outside
The area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...
This weekly column is The Daily Beast's contribution to the growing Longreads community on Twitter, where fans of longform journalism collect and share their favorite stories. Follow along through the hashtag #longreads, and visit Longreads.com and Longform.org for suggestions throughout the week. To take these stories on the go, we recommend using smartphone applications such as Instapaper or Read It Later. You can download either at your mobile phone's application store. To send us suggestions, tweet the story to @thedailybeast on Twitter with the hashtag #longreads.
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Best Journalism
1. "Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden" Henry Shukman, Outside
The area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...
- 2/25/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
I wasn’t aware that Stanley Kubrick had cut 17 minutes out of the finished cut of 2001: A Space Odyssey that premiered in 1968 but I’m sure curious. It seems the footage was initially axed due to pacing issues and would never be screened again, and over time it seemed like it was lost to the world.
Doug Trumbull, who worked on the visual effects of the film (and would later go on to direct the excellent Bruce Dern sci-fi thriller Silent Running) announced the unexpected news at a special screening of the film in Toronto that Warner Bros. have found the complete and perfectly preserved component negatives of the lost footage in a salt mine in Kansas. Warners are now mulling over ideas of what to do with it.
What could the new footage show?
Herc at AICN pointed out this segment from Wiki…
Kubrick filmed several scenes that...
Doug Trumbull, who worked on the visual effects of the film (and would later go on to direct the excellent Bruce Dern sci-fi thriller Silent Running) announced the unexpected news at a special screening of the film in Toronto that Warner Bros. have found the complete and perfectly preserved component negatives of the lost footage in a salt mine in Kansas. Warners are now mulling over ideas of what to do with it.
What could the new footage show?
Herc at AICN pointed out this segment from Wiki…
Kubrick filmed several scenes that...
- 12/17/2010
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has a new film out. Leo Hickman takes an alternative look at the trailer
Cinema-goers now have less than a month to wait until they get the chance to see Cool It, the new documentary made by Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cool It promises to be the antidote to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, with Lomborg "exploring the real facts and true science of global warming and its impact". But, as all keen Lomborg watchers know, the Danish economist has been repeatedly challenged about his own use of the "real facts". So one awaits Cool It's interpretation of the global warming debate with some interest, if not a little trepidation.
In the meantime (the film is released in the Us and Canada on 12 November), we must make do with the recently released trailer, above. Condensing a feature-length documentary into...
Cinema-goers now have less than a month to wait until they get the chance to see Cool It, the new documentary made by Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cool It promises to be the antidote to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, with Lomborg "exploring the real facts and true science of global warming and its impact". But, as all keen Lomborg watchers know, the Danish economist has been repeatedly challenged about his own use of the "real facts". So one awaits Cool It's interpretation of the global warming debate with some interest, if not a little trepidation.
In the meantime (the film is released in the Us and Canada on 12 November), we must make do with the recently released trailer, above. Condensing a feature-length documentary into...
- 10/21/2010
- by Leo Hickman
- The Guardian - Film News
Above, The Turning Into Gods trailer. Below, right, Jason Silva. You might recognize Venezuela-born Jason Silva from his work hosting shows for Al Gore's Emmy-winning Current TV network—and from his Gap's Icon campaign billboards. What you probably don't know is he's also a documentarian obsessed with the intersection of science, technology, and art, and is working on a new film called Turning Into Gods. Here he introduces some of the ideas he's exploring in the movie. At a recent Ted Conference, a dinner was organized by the Edge Foundation, a think tank and nonprofit that celebrates big ideas. The theme of the evening was the "New Age of Wonder," and the discussion drew comparisons to the Romantic Age, the period between 1770 and 1830 when science and art were friends. It was a time when astronomers and poets were in some ways indistinguishable, as artists were inspired by science's intoxicating sense of awe and wonder.
- 5/7/2010
- Vanity Fair
Houghton Mifflin announced the editor for their 2010 Best American anthologies. The well-regarded line of books continues with familiar names handling many of our favorite genres.ComicMix readers can start saving up for the Comics collection to be edited by Neil Gaiman.
Here's the complete list:
The Best American Short Stories 2010: Richard Russo
The Best American Essays 2010: Christopher Hitchens
The Best American Comics: Neil Gaiman
The Best American Nonrequired Reading: Dave Eggers (guest introducer: David Sedaris)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing: Freeman Dyson
The Best American Mystery Stories: Lee Child
The Best American Travel Writing: Bill Buford
The Best American Sports Writing 2010: Peter Gammons
The Best American Noir of the Century: Otto Penzler and James Ellroy
Continue reading Neil Gaiman to Edit Best Comics Collection ›...
Here's the complete list:
The Best American Short Stories 2010: Richard Russo
The Best American Essays 2010: Christopher Hitchens
The Best American Comics: Neil Gaiman
The Best American Nonrequired Reading: Dave Eggers (guest introducer: David Sedaris)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing: Freeman Dyson
The Best American Mystery Stories: Lee Child
The Best American Travel Writing: Bill Buford
The Best American Sports Writing 2010: Peter Gammons
The Best American Noir of the Century: Otto Penzler and James Ellroy
Continue reading Neil Gaiman to Edit Best Comics Collection ›...
- 2/17/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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