For instance, “Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan is the best read of the crew—she’s using her position in the Empire to get a ton of advance galleys, even the ones that seem impossible to get a hold of.” - LitHub
“The corporation apologized and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, about the lives of three children caught in the Israel-Gaza war, from its streaming service BBC iPlayer” after news broke that one of the 13-year-old subjects is the son of a Hamas official. - The Hollywood Reporter
Including red carpet coverage, and, eventually, awards as well. If you would prefer something slightly different, here are the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter (winners only), and host ABC’s updates as well. - The New York Times
With hammers and screws, of course. Composer Daniel Blumberg, tipped to win tonight, “found himself in the novel position of actually having to write music about architecture.” - The Independent (UK) (MSN)
Its director thinks Black Box Diaries is having a hard time “because it shines a light on a topic normally kept in the shadows: how the legal system and society, more broadly, look unfavorably on women who come forward to say they were sexually assaulted.” - The New York Times
Andrea Barrett: Some writers will change facts. “But that makes me queasy. I think my own sketchy, early education made me realize that for some of us, what we read in a historical novel might be all we’ll ever know about a particular period.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
In stressful times, “the shoulds creep up. ... I should be reading more! I should be reading better books! I am making terrible choices with my limited time on earth!” - Reactor Magazine
Holder was "a standout dancer ... who made his name in the 1960s and early ’70s in pointedly topical works like Astarte, a groundbreaking psychedelic ballet, and The Green Table, a haunting 1930s antiwar ballet made newly relevant by the Vietnam War.” - The New York Times
The CAMP founders: “You had 100 hours of footage for a 60-minute film. That was really the reason for building a non-state archive, and we’re the custodians and collaborators who think the 99 hours may be more important.” - The Verge
If Emilia Pérez doesn’t win much tonight, at least it looks good: "Saint Laurent clothes played pivotal roles in the wardrobes of various characters, including a faux fur coat worn by Selena Gomez and a red suit worn by Zoe Saldaña.” - The New York Times
“Does it bother me that Saoirse Ronan doesn’t have an Oscar? Yes. ... She should have won for Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women, all three of them, epochal. But I worry more that she’ll win for something less astounding.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
“Through her work, she was an early—if accidental—proponent of so-called color-blind casting, in which a performer’s race does not limit the parts available to them, long before such a concern became standard in the industry. She deserves compassion, not judgment.”- The Atlantic (MSN)
Maillet “shaped a new literary language for an isolated French-speaking minority, becoming the first non-European to win France’s most prestigious literary prize.” - The New York Times
“French president Emmanuel Macron has said he is concerned about the 'arbitrary detention’ and health of Boualem Sansal, days after the French-Algerian author began a hunger strike over his imprisonment in Algeria.” - The Guardian (UK)
