Julia Barton appears in the following:
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
Whether it comes from government spokespeople or celebrity publicists, the phrase “can neither confirm nor deny” is the perfect non-denial denial.
American Icons: 'Untitled Film Stills'
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Photographer Cindy Sherman’s pioneering series "Untitled Film Stills" transformed what self-portraits could be.
You Should Finally Read "Infinite Jest"
Thursday, March 03, 2016
Two decades after David Foster Wallace’s "Infinite Jest" came out, his biographer D.T. Max argues it’s Wallace’s masterpiece — and an enduring classic.
Live in the Studio: Bahamas
Friday, November 14, 2014
Singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen, who records as Bahamas, romanticizes faraway people and places in his music — including the Bahamas, where he’s never set foot.
American Icons: Untitled Film Stills
Friday, May 16, 2014
Cindy Sherman launched her career by placing herself in photos that look like movie stills for imaginary movies. With Untitled Film Stills, she also created some of the most recogniza...
Aha Moment: Madonna’s “Live to Tell”
Friday, March 14, 2014
Holly Welker was already doubting her Mormon faith when she went on her mission to Taiwan. She found herself in a strange city with few friends, suffering from a crisis of faith as ...
What Lies Beneath
Thursday, February 13, 2014
In “Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” we spend a fair amount of time on the remarkable cover story that disguised a CIA mission to lift the Soviet submarine K-129 from the bottom of the Pacific. That cover story puts the movie-cover-story of “Argo” to shame: from about 1970-74, the ...
American Icons: Untitled Film Stills
Friday, October 11, 2013
In the 1980s, Cindy Sherman began taking self-portraits that showed her in costumes and scenarios that looked just like movie stills, although they were her own inventions. In a media...
The Where, the Why, and the How
Friday, January 18, 2013
Science has had a pretty good run these last few centuries: immunology, space travel, the Higgs Boson. But there are still plenty of phenomena at the edge of our understanding. The...
Michigan Film Industry Goes Dark
Friday, December 07, 2012
The new movie Oz: The Great and Powerful comes out next spring. But like Dorothy said, they're not in Kansas anymore; this Oz was shot in Michigan. Oz was the high-water mark of an a...
Andrew McCarthy: From Brat-Packer to Backpacker
Friday, September 28, 2012
If you were alive in the 1980s, you, or someone you loved, had a crush on Andrew McCarthy. He played Blane McDonnagh, the rich kid who captures the heart of Molly Ringwald’s character...
Inside North Korean Cinema: Comrade Kim Goes Flying
Friday, September 28, 2012
North Korea is such an insular nation that almost any glimpse of life in the country makes news. This week is the country’s Pyongyang Film Festival, drawing crowds of North Koreans to...
Why Salman Rushdie Became Joseph Anton
Friday, September 21, 2012
On Valentines Day, 1989, Iran’s dying leader, the Ayatollah Khomeni, issued a fatwa (death sentence) against Rushdie for supposedly blaspheming Islam's prophet in his novel The Satan...
Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
Friday, September 14, 2012
Susanna Moore remains best known for her 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut, about a writing teacher who descends into a seedy world of murder and sexual violence. Her latest novel, Th...
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Friday, September 07, 2012
New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max has written the first major biography of author David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. In it he uncovers how the author was personal...
What Good Are Film Festivals?
Friday, September 07, 2012
Political reporters on the campaign trail aren’t the only journalists racking up the frequent flyer miles right now. It’s the season of major film festivals, and people who cover m...
Born to Run: Campaign Earworms
Friday, August 24, 2012
It’s been decades since any political business was hashed out at a national political convention. They’re stage productions, and music is a big part of the image they’re designed to...
The Tools for a Creative Life
Friday, August 24, 2012
Phil Stutz and Barry Michels are Hollywood psychologists with a roster of A-list clients. “Especially among the actors, you have people where no one’s told them the truth ever for the...
Michigan Voters Raise Property Taxes for Art Museum
Friday, August 17, 2012
Talking about raising taxes during an election year is considered political suicide. But that’s exactly what voters in Michigan did on August 7. Residents of Macomb, Oakland, and Wa...
Disputed Art Disappears from University Campus
Friday, August 03, 2012
A year ago, the University of Wyoming’s Art Museum commissioned an outdoor sculpture from British artist Chris Drury. Carbon Sink was a 36-foot-diameter vortex of logs killed by pi...
