Tad Friend
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?
Eating meat creates huge environmental costs. Impossible Foods thinks it has a solution, Tad Friend writes. → Read More
Bill Hader Kills
With “Barry,” his bleakly funny TV show, Hollywood’s favorite impressionist reinvents himself as a writer-director. → Read More
Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance
Like many Democrats in the Trump era, Newsom aims to harness the alarm of moderates, the rage of progressives, and the widespread yearning for a new politics. → Read More
Tad Friend
Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the magazine’s Letter from California, and has examined Los Angeles’s fixation on police pursuits, the cemetery entrepreneur Tyler Cassity, the electric-car magnate Elon Musk, life on death row at San Quentin, and Ben Stiller, among many other subjects. His piece on suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, “Jumpers,” inspired… → Read More
How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?
Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human—for better and for worse. → Read More
Donald Glover Can’t Save You
The creator of “Atlanta” wants TV to tell hard truths. Is the audience ready? → Read More
“Mudbound” Director Dee Rees Cracks the Video-Game Code
Her third feature brought her freedom from student debt and some free time to relax with West of Loathing. → Read More
Maggie Betts on Nuns Jilted by God
In “Novitiate,” the writer-director takes an unexpectedly sensual look at convent life. → Read More
Why Ageism Never Gets Old
The prejudice is an ancient habit, but new forces—in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and beyond—have restored its youthful vitality. → Read More
Andy Serkis’s Miniature Worlds
The actor visits an exhibit of models in Times Square. Pointing to the Empire State Building, he said, “I’ve already been on top of that.” → Read More
Peter Landesman’s Picture of Heroism
In his new film, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” the writer-director delivers a complex portrait of Deep Throat. → Read More
Breakfast with Mike White
The writer-director behind “Brad’s Status” on what your reputation is worth. → Read More
Tad Friend
Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the magazine’s Letter from California, and has examined Los Angeles’s fixation on police pursuits, the cemetery entrepreneur Tyler Cassity, the electric-car magnate Elon Musk, life on death row at San Quentin, and Ben Stiller, among many other subjects. His piece on suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, “Jumpers,” inspired… → Read More
Hampton Fancher on the Edge of Fame
The promiscuous adventures of a man-about-town. → Read More
Hampton Fancher on the Edge of Fame
The promiscuous adventures of a man-about-town. → Read More
The Middle-School Friends Behind “Brigsby Bear”
Kyle Mooney, Kevin Costello, and Dave McCary met in seventh grade. Now they have a movie out. → Read More
The Middle-School Friends Behind “Brigsby Bear”
Kyle Mooney, Kevin Costello, and Dave McCary met in seventh grade. Now they have a movie out. → Read More
David Lowery’s Haunting Cinema
The director of “A Ghost Story” discusses his new movie over tofu Benedict. → Read More
David Lowery’s Haunting Cinema
The director of “A Ghost Story” discusses his new movie over tofu Benedict. → Read More
Holly Hunter’s New York Story
The actress, who plays a fiercely protective mom in both “The Big Sick” and “Strange Weather,” remembers her start. → Read More