Sure, Google Translate can help out with ordering a coffee in another language, but "neural machine-translation models can translate only about 30 percent of novel excerpts—usually simple passages—with acceptable quality, as determined by native speakers." - The Atlantic
It's so popular now, still, thanks to hand-transcriptions from the 1990s - and a Best of College A Capella compilation CD. "Many of the singers interviewed about the song could not help but sing a few bars, unprompted." - The New York Times
Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop is her fourth novel, and it's outselling nearly everyone else's novels at the moment. But don't ask her to talk about the next one. "A lot of writers are a bit secretive; if you tell other people they might ruin it." - Irish Times
But the Golden Globes could, and the intrigue was great as Taylor Swift faced off against Barbie. The doll won. Can the Academy ever go down this path? - Vulture
It's been nearly six decades since then-toddler Jodie Foster played her first role. "Even minor celebrity is corrosive, and Foster’s fame is ridiculous. It has taken years of work, she says, not to be ruined by it." - The Guardian (UK)
"What do filmmakers owe the people who inspire the stories they tell, particularly when those stories involve abuse or exploitation?" - Los Angeles Times
After the fire, the artist went to the American Academy in Rome. "I always say Rome was a great place to be depressed. I could not paint in my airy Academy studio with its spectacular views over the city. Instead, I went to museums" - and started a novel. - LitHub
Acocella, who wrote of dance, culture, and more for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books for decades, "was often mischievous and always delicious," says her editor at the NYRB. - The New York Times
Even as other industrial materials shops move away (and galleries open in their place), "For 50 years, Canal Plastics Center has enticed artists, designers, and architects in need of acrylic swaths at a fraction of the price of metal and glass." - Hyperallergic
And that's not just the Palme D'Or winner, Anatomy of a Fall, but several others that came out in 2023. "Arthouse film-makers are subverting and reinventing the courtroom drama genre to explore faultlines in French society and raise questions about gender, race and prejudice." - The Guardian (UK)
At the Australian Ballet’s artistic health centre in Melbourne, ballet star David Hallberg - who went to them, "broken," he says, in 2015 - physiotherapists and researchers use new, constantly refined methods to heal dancers and other athletes, or help them never get hurt in the first place. - The Age (Australia)
