Diego Segura

As for the four indictments against Trump and how seriously they should be taken, Steve was a bit cagier in his response, as you might expect. “We’re getting into the realm of theater,” he said, “and this isn’t a theater review.”

Last year I burnt myself out on introspection and developed a personal philosophy to “take action towards things I think I want until I can come up with a good reason to stop.”

Frankly, Paramount Global should also have known better than to try to sell the third largest book publisher to the industry’s biggest player. I’m sure the $2.2 billion purchase price—incredibly, nearly one quarter of Paramount’s now anemic $10.5 billion market value—must have been more than a little enticing, and therefore worth the risk, along... See more

Because the essays were initially published in New York, most of them begin with the same salutation: "To the People of the State of New York".

The tape recorder (which Warhol called “my wife”) was always on, fashioning one-act plays out of casual conversations—the journalistic answer to found art.

“Ideological suffocation has been the background ambient noise of the last 10 years,” Velez tells me. “Unfortunately I don't think fashion will ever be the Caligulan bacchanalia that it was in the ’80s and ’90s.” Velez is bringing courage, both creatively and ideologically to the scene.

The problem, Ms. Velez has learned, is that recognition — the buzz around awards, reviews and celebrity endorsements — doesn’t always yield tangible returns. If anything, she said, it contributes to the idea that things are going well when they are not.