Andrew Marantz

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

When David Mamet was planning to bring his 1983 play “Glengarry Glen Ross” to Broadway for a fourth time, he asked Nathan Lane to star in it. Lane agreed, but he had a condition: “The first person you have to hire is Bill Burr.” Lane later had to drop out—Bob Odenkirk took his place in the revival, now running at the Palace—but his casting advice stuck.

2 months ago | rsn.org | Andrew Marantz

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. The nonfiction best-seller list in early 2018 included “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic” and “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.” The cover of the former was emergency-alert red; on the latter, a map of the United States was bursting into flames.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

“If you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life,” a social scientist says, of living in Hungary, where democracy has been under siege for more than a decade. In this week’s magazine, Marantz reports from Budapest, and speaks with people on the front lines of our current political crisis.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

“If you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life,” a social scientist says, of living in Hungary, where democracy has been under siege for more than a decade. In this week’s magazine, Marantz reports from Budapest, and speaks with people on the front lines of our current political crisis.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

The nonfiction best-seller list in early 2018 included “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic” and “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.” The cover of the former was emergency-alert red; on the latter, a map of the United States was bursting into flames. By comparison, the cover of another book, “How Democracies Die,” was somewhat muted—white capital letters on a black background. The word “DIE,” though, did loom large.