Users claim they can "reality shift" to any fictional world; just, they say, "switch your consciousness to the right parallel universe." - Washington Post
Why? "Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, one of Japan’s livelier practices, has objected that 'we independent artists are banned and totally deleted from the list of the designers.'" - The Observer (UK)
One descendant: "Everything that are and were essentially derived from their relationship to their community, and that's from their intellectual achievements to their wealth, which was stolen wealth." - NPR
"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives threatens all of that, a scholar says. - Contingent Magazine
"Across Africa, literary journals managed by young writers and artists are emerging with the aim of publishing both new and established voices, collaborating across geographies." - The New York Times
U.S. prosecutors want to return "a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered more than 20 years ago from a temple." - The New York Times
Whew, this time has been weird. "It was a fun challenge, and also, it just hit differently because we were in lockdown living in our fantasy world." - Variety
Why? Perhaps because it was concentrated: "With Cannes 2020 called off, Cannes 2021 reaped the benefits of not one but two years’ worth of new movies." - Los Angeles Times
Oops at Cannes: "When the jury president, Spike Lee, was asked to announce the first prize of the night, he misunderstood and read off the first-prize winner instead." - The New York Times
The exhibit, which used plaques on benches and Cold War rosebushes to convey info about Britain's nuclear past, was threatened with a lawsuit. - The Observer (UK)
Alert, four-day work week advocates: "Leisure is doing things for their own sake, to pursue what one wants. We should fight the urge to reduce it to a productivity hack." - The Atlantic
