is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Evil Geniuses
and Fantasyland
, as well as the bestselling novels You Can’t Spell America Without Me 
, True Believers 
, Heyday 
, and Turn of the Century 
. With Steven Soderbergh he co-created the streaming series COMMAND Z (2023) 
, and has previously written for TV, film and the stage 
.
He co-founded Spy magazine 
, co-created and hosted the Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast Studio 360 
, and hosted and co-produced the podcast Nixon At War (2021) 
. He’s also a journalist — regular contributor to the New York Times 
and The Atlantic 
, formerly a New Yorker 
columnist, Time 
critic and columnist, and New York 
editor-in-chief.