Yearly Archives: 2021
Everybody Plagiarizes
And that's fine. "Published authors, more often than not famous ones, have had few scruples when it comes to committing literary larceny. 'Authors are like privateers,' claimed Samuel Johnson, 'always...
How To Be Everywhere Online
First, meme well (and second, make She Memes Well the title of your memoir). In her new book, comedian and meme power user Quinta...
Ned Beatty, Prolific Actor Of Stage And Screen, 83
Beatty's roles "captured the full spectrum of humanity — from sincerity to villainy, buffoonery to tragedy — and made him one of the most...
The Blogger Preserving Jewish Ballet
In college, Beatrice Waterhouse started wondering where she could find information about Jews in the ballet world. So she created a Tumblr site, "'People...
Quantum Computing Will Not Change Everything
Despite the hype, the reality is different - and to resist the hucksters, we need to understand why. - Wired
The Fights Over Robert Indiana’s Estate Come To An End
It's been an expensive and draining series of legal battles. "After three years of courtroom hostilities, the estate of the artist Robert Indiana and...
Brexit May Cause A Royal Mess With Copyright, Authors Warn
Living authors like Kate Mosse and Philip Pullman are worried because as Britain exits the EU, protections have changed. "Authors and publishers fear that...
A Guide To The Pulitzer Prize Books
Northern Hemisphere summer reading plans, here you go. - The New York Times
Yusef Komunyakaa On Poetry And The Pandemic
Komunyakaa: Writing poetry "feels like one has been chosen as a caretaker of observation. There's a certain reality, but also there's a certain kind...
Netflix’s ‘Selena’ Disrespected The Singer And The Latinx Staff, Writers Say
The story of Selena Quintanilla is quintessentially American - so why did Netflix order it as a Latin American original with a tiny budget...
Juilliard Students Lead Music, Dance-Filled Protests Over Tuition Hikes
After a planned protest in one of the school's buildings, the students "were barred from the Diamond building, and the school told them that...
The Formerly Hidden Histories Of Africans In England
English Heritage commissioned six portraits to emphasize the history - including Roman emperor Septimius Severus, who ordered the strengthening of Hadrian's Wall while on...
How Historical Fiction Became Literary Again
For decades, the literary world disdained historical fiction. "It has been seen as its own fusty fashion, relentlessly uncontemporary and easy to caricature, filled...
What Hollywood Could Learn From The ‘Kim’s Convenience’ Scandal
The sitcom's actors took to social media to say more about the series' abrupt end - and the series itself. Their posts "threw into...
The New Yorker Union Is Prepared To Strike
The writers, contributors, and freelance editorial workers are prepared to produce a strike issue - or a Labor Peace issue. It all depends on...
Brandon Taylor On Escaping The ‘Hermetic Severity’ Of His Booker-Nominated First Novel
Taylor's Real Life hit many "best of" lists for 2020, and a collection of loosely linked short stories comes out this month. "My most...
A Much, Much Larger Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Is On Its Way
The collection certainly demands a change: "The current facility, which opened in 1997, originally housed a collection of 40 O’Keeffe paintings. The museum had...
Riz Ahmed Wants Far More, And Far Better, Muslim Rep In Hollywood
And it's not just Hollywood. In recent USC study, the researchers "combed through 200 popular films from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New...
Theatre Workers With Long Covid Worry About A Return To Work
Theatre working conditions often aren't ideal for anyone, much less people whose bodies and minds have been harmed by the virus. "Theatre artists and...
Kids Was An Amazing Film – That Ruined Its Subjects’ Lives
When Kids came out in 1995, it won awards, had incredible box-office success for a film so raunchy, and essentially took the film world...
How The Pandemic Has Changed Our Brains
It's been ... a lot. "It is a generation-defining cataclysm, but for many of us the day-to-day reality has been lonely, even dull. It...
Keeping It Real – And Dreamy Too
To make In the Heights work as a movie, the playwright and scriptwriter Quiera AlegrÃa Hudes had to make painful cuts, and so did...
HBO Max Walks A Tightrope Of Media Rights
Success in streaming, as Netflix has shown, ultimately requires reaching subscribers in every corner of the planet. But taking a streaming service around the...
How Binary Thinking Constricts Design
The ways that each culture defines gender norms and structures are unique. Historically, the U.S. enforced a rigid gender binary to support its relentless...
Why Has Philosophy Failed?
For almost any abstract notion, some philosopher has wondered what it really is. Yet, despite this wealth of questions and the centuries spent tackling...
