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Alexandra Schwartz

Alexandra Schwartz has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016, and is a co-host of the magazine’s Critics at Large podcast.

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Brady Corbet’s Outsider American Epic
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Alexandra Schwartz profiles the director of “The Childhood of a Leader” and “Vox Lux,” whose new film stars Adrien Brody and is an Oscar favorite.

Lee Grant Laughs Last
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Hollywood wrote her off as an actress at age fifty, so she learned to direct. Just before turning ninety-eight, she celebrates after presenting a retrospective, Alexandra Schwartz writes.