Truly, sort of. Since the author of Station Eleven said once in an interview that she was married, she couldn't convince Wikipedia she was now divorced - not without another published interview. - Slate
The director "has conceded that perhaps the Oscar-winning 1975 thriller was too effective at conjuring fear of the defamed creatures, admitting he is 'truly regretful' for any influence he has had on the world’s rapidly shrinking shark population." - The Observer (UK)
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop telling the world what it now knows for certain: Putin is dangerous, even deadly. - Washington Post
"The pope called the return a 'donation' to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to 'follow in the ecumenical path of truth.'" - Hyperallergic
The director of the new film Bardo, an Oscar-winner for Birdman and The Revenant, didn't want to leave Mexico, but, he says, "There wasn’t really a possibility for me to be a filmmaker there, which is what I most wanted to be." - Los Angeles Times
"Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to be of high value for antiquities, including Unesco world heritage sites." - The Observer (UK)
"Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox but don’t go to shul regularly? Or are they ultrareligious as in The Chosen?" - The New York Times
The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - and their brothers - to find, and found, a center of artistic life in London. - LitHub
He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, "his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a generous spirit." - The New York Times
As a new crop of music documentaries' directors confirm, "Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of and a reaction to the environment." - Variety
At MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was a film curator who "scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York" - and, thus, the rest of the U.S. "Her choices were crucial in expanding the horizons of American cinephiles." - The New York Times
Al Saqi, a literary institution that opened in 1978, will close at the end of 2022. One of the owners: "You'd meet Arabs in London, and they would say, when I - when my family visits from abroad, I take them to Big Ben and to Al Saqi Books." - NPR
Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: "We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and have put in hundreds of thousands of pounds of our own money. ... It’s our home and we have no plans to move." - LitHub
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too powerful, so you had to keep that down." - Los Angeles Times
"What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as they do on the arrangement of surfaces along the way." - Vulture
