Isaac Butler

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction Named one of the Best Books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Time Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Vox, Salon, Lit Hub, and Vanity Fair. “Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I’ve ever read.”--Nathan Lane The critically acclaimed cultural...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2026 So Far The prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America’s culture wars—a story of late 20th century art vs. censorship, brimming with intense drama and fierce moral urgency. It’s 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence...