Emily Nussbaum
Emily Nussbaum , a staff writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2016. She is the author of “ I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution ” and “ Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV .”
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A profile of Marielle Heller, the director of “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” and the new Amy Adams movie “Nightbitch,” as well as an actor in “The Queen’s Gambit.” Emily Nussbaum reports.
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After making “The Good Wife,” Robert and Michelle King went rogue, creating wildly experimental series that capture the vertigo of post-Trump America, Emily Nussbaum writes.
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“Fosse/Verdon” and “Documentary Now!” parse the gender politics of artistic mastery and the difference between doormat and muse, Emily Nussbaum writes.
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Emily Nussbaum on Ryan Murphy, who, more than any other showrunner, has upended the pieties of modern television.