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Cal Shakes Veterans Mourn, And Remember
"In my long career all over the country, I have never experienced a more comprehensively intelligent, generous and progressive audience. Where did that audience...
Breaking Cultural Ground With An Iranian American Play
Avaaz is "not just a personal story, it’s also a Persian New Year celebration taking center stage at the Denver Center Theater Company this month. The...
Dueling Literary Letters Make Opposing Pledges About Israeli Cultural Institutions
One letter, signed by 2700 authors and entertainers, calls for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that are “complicit in violating Palestinian rights,” while...
Dear Writers, Please Remember To Take Care Of Your Readers
In student writing, teachers and professors are paid to do the reading. But books? That’s a whole different exchange. - LitHub
It Turns Out Free Pizza Was A Great Bribe For Reading
Or at least, that’s how Millennials remember the Book It! program, which is - shockingly - still going strong, 40 years in, with personal...
How Did ‘Yellowstone’ Capture So Big A Part Of US Culture?
“The neo-Western wrapped contemporary ideas of rugged individualism inside the soapy drama of a land-hoarding family’s succession planning." - The New York Times
Actor Anne-Marie Duff Says Live Theatre Is Thrilling
Sure, she’s appeared in movies and series, but Duff loves the stage. “It’s just like you and me. ... As soon as you say...
The New Color Kindle May Be Having A Weird Glitch
Amazon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, getting hammered on its own site for an occasional yellow band at the bottom of the Kindle Colorsoft screen. -...
The Psychosocial Dread That Underpins Japanese Horror Films
For instance, after the emperor died and the tech bubble popped in Japan, “filmmakers leaned into the anxieties of late-twentieth-century life–including, prominently and presciently,...
Rousseau Got His Ideas On Equality From A Woman
“It is surprising that few scholars have stopped to wonder whether Rousseau’s fledging as a philosophe ... had anything to do with the six years he...
Who Owns Wheel Of Fortune?
We don’t mean that in a mystical sense, but in the sense that Sony and CBS are in the midst of a legal fight...
The Life Of A Writer Is Often Quite Choppy, Says Author Deborah Levy
"Levy has written nine novels, two of which have been shortlisted for the Booker prize, and is clearly of the view that fiction is...
A Record Number Of Books Censored And Banned In Schools This Year
That’s a rise of 200 percent over 2023, which was already a huge year for organizations that rub their hands in glee as they...
An Autistic Girl Turned Down By Ballet Schools Inspires A Whole New Approach
A Scottish ballet teacher has created classes that meet the needs of autistic kids in ballet. The teacher says the response has been overwhelming:...
Love Is Blind, But Make It Books
“The first thing customers see when they walk into the Strand Book Store in Manhattan is a table of anonymous books with covers wrapped...
How Archie Moore’s Family Tree Led Him To The Golden Lion At The Venice...
“As the artist has described it, it’s ‘a memorial to everything that has ever lived.’” - The New York Times
A Booker Shortlist Author On The Ways Language Fails
Anne Michaels, author of the spare, gorgeous Held says, "You can use brutal language to describe brutality, but that’s a lie; language can’t represent...
That Time When Bill Nighy Liberated Shakespeare And Shaw From The Library
It was all to impress a young woman at drama school auditions. - BBC
The Motion Picture Academy Just Laid Off A Whole Lot Of People
Who cares about the history of film, right? You might think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But hey, it’s time to...
A New Smell-O-Vision, This Time For Museums
“The human sense of smell, which has powerful connections to memory and emotion, has been deployed in art and historical displays and museums around...
Patricia Johanson, Groundbreaking Environmental Artist, Has Died At 84
Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” - The New York...
How A Grad Student Found A Hidden Mayan City From His Computer
“I just started poking around on the internet and eventually got the right combination of search terms and number of Google pages results in...
John Williams, From Jazz Pianist To Blockbuster Composer
“Williams is undoubtedly the greatest ‘whistle test’ composer of his age – a purveyor of instantly memorable tunes that both capture and breathe life into the...
The Woman Who Negotiated For Management During The 2023 Hollywood Strikes Is Stepping Down
“She was a lightning rod for criticism by Hollywood workers, particularly during last year’s walkouts. A parody account portraying Lombardini as a cartoonish corporate...
Where, Oh Where, Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest, And Probably Last, Movie?
"Eastwood fans in the UK will have no problem seeing Juror #2, where it’s enjoying a wide release in more than 300 cinemas nationwide....