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The Relatively Quick De-Centering Of English-Language Literature
“The consolidation of the English-language publishing industry in the 1980s and 90s gave its most successful writers a worldwide reach and a critical impact that...
The Comedian Who Grew Up A Hasidic Lubavitch Jew And Now Plays One On...
Robby Hoffman "recently received her first acting Emmy nomination — for the role of Randi” on Hacks. It was relatively quick success, after she...
The Woman Who Perfected Flower Painting Was Once More Famous Than Vermeer
“Over the course of her nearly 70-year career, Ruysch shunned radical innovation and experimentation, and opted for the subtlest of variations on a theme....
A Paris Show Traces Gaza’s Cultural History
“The exhibition, Saved Treasures of Gaza, at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of ‘urgency’ to explain the rich history...
Jimmy Fallon Has Knuckled Under To Kiss The Conservative Ring On His Late-Knight Show
"Fallon is a professional. If he has any reservations about interviewing Gutfeld, … made headlines by joking that conservatives should proudly reclaim the word...
Jane Morgan, Torch Singer Who Charmed Paris, New York, And Los Angeles, Has Died...
Morgan “arrived in Paris in 1948, having dropped out of Juilliard after the French nightclub impresario Bernard Hilda offered her a chance to sing...
Awful As It Is, Ad-Supported Streaming Is The Future
But hey, one currently hard-up business might benefit: "If anything sends viewers back to the cineplex, it will be ads for depression meds in...
Loni Anderson, Star Of WKRP In Cincinnati, Has Died At 79
“Anderson’s seemingly ditsy, bombshell character was anything but, and her performance as Jennifer showed that looks and smarts could go together.” - The New...
On The Muppets, And Grief
“After a great loss, some people find themselves communing with nature, at the seaside or deep in a forest. Others turn to spirituality, toward...
This Theatre In Upstate Wisconsin Survives, And Thrives, On Local Lore, And Cheese
At Northern Sky, “There’s kind of an ownership because you saw shows about people that you know, Midwesterners.” Some of them, like Lumberjacks in...
The Salt Path Scandal Could Put An End To The Nature Memoir
Or not: “Reading about someone else’s deep dive into forest, field or water furnishes us with the sense that we’re participating in an environment that,...
The Quest To Preserve Marfa
Four years after a fire gutted it, Donald Judd’s “Architecture Office will reopen with new ventilation systems, recycled-denim insulation and an upstairs apartment for...
How Emmys Voters Award, And Ignore, Writers And Directors
“Writing and directing winners often get caught up in a sweep … so when they do diverge from the series winner, it can...
Ann Harris, Who Shaped The Exorcist, The Thorn Birds, And Many Other Bestsellers, Has...
“'She was a classic, old-style editor,’ Frances McCullough, who worked with Ms. Harris as an editor at Harper & Row, said in an interview....
Can ‘Bricking’ A Phone Fix Phone Addiction Issues?
No. “The main problem is that Brick requires you to be intentional about being present. I was addicted to being omnipresent.” - The Verge
South Koreans Are As Obsessed As People In The US With Netflix’s K-Pop: Demon...
“The film’s popularity in South Korea is rooted in its keenly observed details and references to Korean folklore, pop culture and even national habits...
This Gen Z Journalist Got The Washington Post On TikTok
And he thinks short-form videos are, yes, once again, the future of journalism. - NPR
Staff Member Dies In A ‘Tragic Accident’ At Jacob’s Pillow
Production manager Kat Sirico and an intern lost control of a dolly carrying heavy platforms. Sirico tripped and fell, and the dolly and platforms...
How Virginia Woolf’s London Became The London So Many People Know
In Mrs. Dalloway, "London is not just a backdrop but an essential character. It is a living, breathing organism, to be held, touched, traversed,...
The Smithsonian Now Says It Will Restore Trump To Impeachment Display
Eventually. And by the way, they removed the info, they say, because it "was meant to be a temporary addition to a twenty-five year-old...
Covering Forty Countries’ Worth Of Arts And Culture Is No Easy Task
One of the Times’ Culture Desk writers in Europe checks 36 news outlets from various countries twice a day, adding in more, from the...
Is It An Honor Just To Be Nominated?
These shows, and actors, may find out tomorrow at the Emmy nominations. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
It Might Be Time To Revive This Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner’s Plays
“Gale didn’t coin the term ‘think global, act local,’ but that’s what Sodality does: Gale’s stories imagine an anti-capitalist vision of ‘sodality’ that could...
Perhaps Inevitably, A British MP Has Called For The Bayeux Tapestry To Travel To...
Sure, why not just take that fragile tapestry to the south coast and “reserve at least 1,066 tickets to the exhibition for people from...
Can The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Survive?
The venerated, invaluable theatre incubator is facing, like so many performance-related sites, money trouble. - The New York Times
