The Outsider
A reëvaluation of Allen’s comic opus as a writer, filmmaker, and monologuist shows that a clash between the humorist and his culture was an artistic inevitability, Adam Gopnik writes.
"Woody has had to endure the special ugliness of our time, in which vindictiveness is disguised as concern, and cruelty wears a bland and therapeutic face." — Gopnik's defense of a comic master amid the scandal.