Jude Law in Drag
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Caryn James reviews Sally Potter's inventive new movie Rage, which is being digitally distributed one segment at a time, featuring a cross-dressing Jude Law.
Who Says the Book Business Is Dead?
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
Now that the Kindle and other electronic readers are finally catching fire, publishing can start to rise from its ashes.
Looking Busy for a Living
David Blum, former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice and The New York Press, teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Flash in the Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant and Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes.
With jobs disappearing faster than the polar ice cap, those who find themselves out of work must pit their wits against those who still cling to their paychecks.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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