The director of “A Ghost Story” discusses his new movie over tofu Benedict. Anthony Michael Hall started out in “The Breakfast Club.” Now he’s playing a character based on the ex-national-security ...

Tad Friend is a staff writer for the New Yorker. But by birth, Friend is also the uneasy member of another kind of elite club: he's a purebred WASP. Friend's new memoir, "Cheerful Money," reflects on ...

Tad Friend is a staff writer at *The New Yorker*, where he writes the magazine's "Letter from California." Prior to that, he wrote regularly for *Outside*, *New York*, and *Esquir*e, and wrote travel ...