Yearly Archives: 2023
How The Heck Can Poetry Journals Survive?
"Commercially, it simply doesn’t stack up. ... Most survive and subsist largely either on unpaid labour or grant funding" - or both. And that...
How Editor Robert Gottlieb Helped Shape Dance
"He brought a galaxy of dance luminaries into his list of authors when he was editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf. ... He...
Warner Bros Is Reportedly Looking To Offload Half Of Its Film And TV Music
What is going on at the behemoth? (And could regulators perhaps have foreseen some issues?) "The catalog is believed to include music from such...
Film Critic Monica Castillo On Why We Really Must Save TCM
In a furious and impassioned plea, Castillo writes, "I'm tired of hearing how much David Zaslav loves classic movies when his action scream otherwise....
Experiments In Sustainable Theatre Design
The structure consists of a 26-metre-long timber frame, shaped roughly like the number six with one long wall clad in mycelium – a biomaterial grown from...
Behold: The Mighty “Sonic Sphere”
The Sonic Sphere, a realization of a modernist dream by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, aims for a new kind of listening experience: surrounding the...
The Marvel Movie AI Credits: No Artists Were Replaced
"It is crucial to emphasize that while the AI component provided optimal results, AI is just one tool among the array of toolsets our...
Dani Filth: Streaming Is Killing Us
"Spotify are the biggest criminals in the world. I think we had 25, 26 million plays last year, and I think personally I got...
The 257 Recordings Of Claudio Abbado
If Abbado’s life had a theme, it was this question of power: of what power means in music, where it comes from, and to...
Was This Man America’s First Published Black Composer?
Occramer Marycoo, abducted from the Gold Coast of West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island in 1764 and renamed by his enslaver as Newport Gardner,...
Might HBO License Its Content To Netflix?
Talk of such a move was a surprise, largely given the frostiness between the two rivals, which have been battling it out on the...
What Belgians Are Doing With All The Beautiful Old Churches Nobody’s Worshiping In Anymore
"On average, each of the 300 towns in Flanders has about six churches and often not enough faithful to fill a single one. Some...
The Long Slow Decline Of Pixar
In retrospect, it seems clear that “Inside Out” was when Pixar’s Silicon Valley brain trust began to peel off from the universe and float...
What Do You Get When You Cross Hip-Hop With Ballet?
Hiplet, of course. (That's pronounced "hip-lay.") "The dance style — a captivating fusion of hip hop and ballet, with some jazz and modern thrown...
The Academic Right — Obligation — To Cancel
The whole point about academic freedom: the freedom to exercise academic expertise in order to discriminate between good and bad ideas, valid and invalid...
We Are Living Through The End Of The Useful Internet. Just Look At What’s...
"Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely-embarrassing-but-occasionally-amusing, to actively harmful, to — mainly by accident — essential. … The internet's best resources...
Book Bans Are Only Part Of The Assault On Reading
A precious domain of imaginative and intellectual freedom is menaced by crude authoritarian politics. Exposure to the wrong words is corrupting our children, who...
Sheldon Harnick, Lyricist For “Fiddler On the Roof,” Is Dead At 99
"Starting in the late 1950s, Harnick and Jerry Bock spent a dozen years at the summit of Broadway songwriting teams. They collaborated on five...
How They Turned The Broadway Theater Into A Disco For “Here Lies Love”
"Scenic designer David Korins, … , who worked on Beetlejuice and Hamilton, put it this way: 'I've done some complicated and ambitious work on...
“It’s A Crazy-Quilt Of Faulty Incentives, From End To End”: Even Deeper Problems With...
"The Brooklyn Museum wanted to do an exhibition with a Netflix celebrity, so the institution isn't going to say anything too plainly about the...
The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time (Not Best. Most Significant.)
A poll of 79 film critics, with the results assembled and curated by J. Hoberman and Julian Epp. (There's also a separate reader poll.)...
Political Films? What Makes A Film “Political”?
Everyone's criteria will be different. (One critic declined to participate in TNR's poll by saying "Every film I care about is political.") And yet,...
The Problem When Billionaires Buy Great Newspapers To Save Them
"That provided a lifeline, but, it was pretty widely said, also a risk: What if the billionaires tired of the money they were losing,...
Eight Months After It Shut Down, Bookforum Will Be Back
"On Thursday, it announced a new partnership with the left-leaning magazine The Nation, and that its next print issue would arrive in August. …...
Vice Media Has Been Bought Out Of Bankruptcy
"The acquisition of the one-time media powerhouse by its three creditors — made up of Fortress, Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital — is...
