New ep of Slate’s Working podcast w/ Isaac Butler (he/him) featuring julia hannafin and Adam Rosenblatt, the scientist who helped with much of the research for Cascade:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wor…

All of this is to say that I’m a writer and I think language and meaning matter and especially online, there’s so much that sounds good but is actually drawn from false consensus and could use more scrutiny.

i’m responsible for this btw 🙂 subscribe to bookforum and your crappy iphone pdf can circulate the internet too

The Lauren Oyler takedown in Bookforum still has me reeling. There's panning a book, and then there's taking the time to figure out that the author exclusively used first results on google for their research lol. The Mortal Kombat of book reviews

i'm reading The Method by Isaac Butler (he/him) and it's remarkable how actual Stanislavski Brand Method Acting (as opposed to Daniel Day-Lewis stuff) reads to us (me) as literally what acting is, like it's hard to imagine doing it any other way

A very pleasant surprise in the mailbox today from Isaac Butler (he/him): a truly excellent essay. Subscribe if you don’t already.

I wrote a little thing about complicity, Quakerism, and the Guernica controversy:

open.substack.com/pub/completewo…

Check out a moment from Isaac Butler's great introduction to our LIVING THE PART collection on Criterion Channel, in which he highlights Robert De Niro and his singular method and approach to acting. 🎭

Isaac Butler (he/him)

Evening viewing recommendation? On Criterion Channel, lose yourself in our Living the Part collection—featuring key performances from actors like Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, & Joaquin Phoenix in films like RAGING BULL, SOPHIE'S CHOICE, THE MASTER, & more! bit.ly/4bXiUk9

BOTD John Garfield!! Hounded by HUAC
MCCT5: 5)Breaking Point 4)Fallen Sparrow 3)Ran All the Way 2)Force of Evil 1)Body & Soul
More:
John Prine: youtube.com/watch?v=_3UTq0…
em: filmschoolrejects.com/they-made-me-a…
Isaac Butler (he/him): newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Cinema Scholars: cinemascholars.com/john-garfield-…

Watch our LIVING THE PART collection starting tomorrow on Criterion Channel—featuring an amazing new introduction by Isaac Butler (@parabasis)! criterionchannel.com/living-the-part

• RAGING BULL
• THE MASTER
• SOPHIE'S CHOICE
• I'M NOT THERE
• CRUISING
and more!

Really great program tonight at the The Center for Fiction where Isaac Butler (he/him) led a fantastic post-performance fireside chat with the masterful Tony Kushner. It's been whirling in my mind all evening.

Shame on Vulture for amplifying this sickness (I use that word advisedly) when so many in the theater world have died because of this horrible disease, and two specifically that we could name within the last few years. vulture.com/article/victor…

Tomorrow at 7 PM, Tony Kushner will be in conversation with Isaac Butler (he/him) at @center4fiction.

Interspersed with the conversation, actors F. Murray Abraham, Linda Emond, James Cusati-Moyer, and Ben Shenkman will perform readings from iHo.

centerforfiction.org/event/story-te…

Unsurprisingly brilliant and menschy convo between Amitava Kumar and Isaac Butler (he/him) !

Was lovely to hear my name pop up at the end but lovelier was listening early this morning and thinking, Damn I wanna write. Which hasn’t happened in a while. Call that the Ami effect

Daria Kasatkina, reposting from Navalny’s widow, remains the bravest voice in tennis right now.

This is gonna be a blast

Call me crazy but I think queer people deserve to be the subject of good movies, not bad ones.

On today’s show, Dan Kois and Isaac Butler (he/him) join Steve to discuss The Zone of Interest! Jonathan Glazer’s audacious film about the Holocaust has split critics—but why? Then, the panel dives in to Nyad before tackling the question: what is a director, anyway? slate.com/podcasts/cultu…

Here’s me as every actor— including the extras— in every shot of FALLEN LEAVES