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Horror Helps Us Deal With The All Too Real Experience Of Loved Ones’ Deaths
Not to mention our own. "In horror, there is no ultimate triumph at the end. Even if the characters survive or defeat the monster,...
What Happens When Everyone Is Literally Writing The Same Book?
As one might suspect, one author says that "when we learned of one another’s existence, it felt a little awkward." - The New York...
The Power – And Virtue – Of Hateful Characters
Oh, it's a joy to hate the Roys on Succession. How refreshing! "Likeability is an odd requirement, as well as a sterile and stifling...
As Lockdown Ends In Australia, Artists Are In Desperate Straits
A Melbourne gallery director says that along with years of massively shrinking arts funding, "the pandemic lockdowns left the industry on its knees. ......
The People Who Want To Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved Have One Thing Right
One expert on challenged books: "Beloved is an extremely violent book, it’s absolutely true. But that is the point of the book. This mother ?...
There’s An Explanation For Why Some People Loathe Specific Celebrities
Honestly, you might think, who cares about James Corden or Nicki Minaj? Some people really care, and frankly, it's a little scary. "Fan culture,...
It Wasn’t Just Gertrude Stein And Alice Toklas, And A Prizewinning Book Knows That
No Modernism Without Lesbians is the title of Diana Souhami's most recent book - and the "hugely enjoyable" history of queer women like Stein,...
Can Afghan Art Survive The Taliban?
Hundreds, perhaps more, of artists of all cultural areas have fled. One artist, whose murals have been whitewashed: "The future of art and culture...
The Choreographers Making Utopian Films In Minneapolis
One choreographer - a former econ major at Macalester College - says, "If I walk out of here in downtown Minneapolis, I don’t know...
How Facebook Has Failed Us All
The social media giant "has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob...
Comments Sections Are A Toxic Stew Of Sexism, And That’s By Design
"It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design...
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait Says There’s No Such Thing As Cancel Culture
"People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ ... I know exactly what he’d...
The Vancouver Opera May Be Returning To A New Kind Of Normal
A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out...
Reckoning With Monuments In The North
The American South isn't the only place with iffy monuments. Consider Boston. - The New Yorker
In Britain, Subtitles May Finally Be Returning After Fire
"Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a...
The Chief Electrician On ‘Rust’ Blames The Film’s Armorer For The Fatal Shot
In a Facebook post, gaffer Sergey Svetnoy wrote of holding Halyna Hutchins as she died, and he blamed the 24-year-old armorer - and the...
The Post-Apocalyptic Book Inspired By The Events Of Charlottesville
Author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson taught art for decades before her first novel was published. My Monticello was easy to imagine, she says, "because it...
Potential Legal Fallout From The Fatal Shooting Of Halyna Hutchins
The experts weigh in - and it's not going to go well for someone. "This doesn’t happen without negligence. There are safety protocols that...
Inside The Phantom’s Return To Broadway
So much celebration ensued - and, well, perhaps for good reason. "The show, which opened on Broadway in 1988 and has never closed, takes...
The Race Against Time To Save Australia’s Archives
Glass plate negatives, nitrite negatives, lantern slides, paper - all can disintegrate and decay. What will the digital records of these tangible archives tell...
There Are So Many Trump Books
Virginia Heffernan read them for us. "Loathsome characters bring out zestful writing, and authors who represent Trump as perilous to democracy ... could find...
Five Seasons Of Issa Rae’s ‘Insecure’ Helped Open Doors For Black Creatives In Hollywood
And, if one can remember when Rae was working on the show, one might say "That's exactly as Issa Rae intended." - Time
Actor Sues Musical, Saying He Was Fired Because He Is Christian
One of Come from Away's former leads, Chad Kimball, "claimed he was terminated 'wholly or partly' because of his religious beliefs." - The New...
Sure, Humanity Would *Totally* Unite Against Aliens
That's sarcastic. It's a bad movie and book trope. We can't even unite against a virus. - Slate
Painting Is Back In Britain, Baby
The Young British Artists are well established institutions, but now so-called Young British Painters, including several who are Black women, "are grabbing the attention and...
