Alex Barasch
@alexbarasch.bsky.social
writing and editing at The New Yorker
A24 executives are infamously press-shy, but I interviewed dozens of people who’ve worked with them—directors, producers, at least one Satanist—and eventually persuaded the people inside to talk to me, too. My piece about the studio’s rise and where it’s headed: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A24’s Empire of Auteurs
The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.
www.newyorker.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A24 executives are infamously press-shy, but I interviewed dozens of people who’ve worked with them—directors, producers, at least one Satanist—and eventually persuaded the people inside to talk to me, too. My piece about the studio’s rise and where it’s headed: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Alex Barasch
Trump is purging the federal web in a digital book burning of unprecedented scale. I wrote about the librarians and “data hoarders” who are backing it up as fast as they can www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trump is purging the federal web in a digital book burning of unprecedented scale. I wrote about the librarians and “data hoarders” who are backing it up as fast as they can www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Reposted by Alex Barasch
Erotic thrillers from the 1980s and ’90s had been a revelation for the young Halina Reijn, but the director of “Babygirl” knew that an erotic thriller in 2024 had to look different. “I want to use the tropes but twist them . . . to have fun with them,” she said.
A Feminist Director Takes On the Erotic Thriller
Halina Reijn has always loved the genre—and revelled in creating a steamy melodrama for Nicole Kidman in which the protagonist is “greedy,” “dark,” and “wrong.”
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Erotic thrillers from the 1980s and ’90s had been a revelation for the young Halina Reijn, but the director of “Babygirl” knew that an erotic thriller in 2024 had to look different. “I want to use the tropes but twist them . . . to have fun with them,” she said.
For this week’s @newyorker.com I profiled the great Halina Reijn, the director of Babygirl. We talked about her past life as a stage actress in Ivo van Hove’s company, her wild, off-the-grid childhood, her relationship with Nicole Kidman, and much more: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Feminist Director Takes On the Erotic Thriller
Halina Reijn has always loved the genre—and revelled in creating a steamy melodrama for Nicole Kidman in which the protagonist is “greedy,” “dark,” and “wrong.”
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:00 PM
For this week’s @newyorker.com I profiled the great Halina Reijn, the director of Babygirl. We talked about her past life as a stage actress in Ivo van Hove’s company, her wild, off-the-grid childhood, her relationship with Nicole Kidman, and much more: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Alex Barasch
Wonderful, dryly funny piece by Alex Barasch about Mattel’s affords to toyify Hollywood: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toy-box
July 2, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Wonderful, dryly funny piece by Alex Barasch about Mattel’s affords to toyify Hollywood: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toy-box