Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
When The Stories You Hear Become Part Of Your Own Identity
Although the story is not based on reality, the experience of the story makes it real. A study from 2017 showed that the themes that people consider most...
Now, With Attacks On Free Speech, Is When Publishers Need To Shine
A democracy can’t function without a healthy publishing ecosystem. That means publishers of all sizes and stripes should be able to keep the lights...
The Strand Bookstore To Absorb Last NYC Shakespeare & Co.
Shakespeare & Co. will transfer ownership of its last New York storefront, located on the Upper West Side, to Strand Book Store on June...
Are We Ready To Give Up The Pleasure Of Thinking To AI?
Take this straightforward case and see how tricky it is in order to start building the cognitive muscles you’ll need when thinking about justice,...
Neuroscientists Note How The Brain Processes Metaphor
Researchers at the University of Arizona sought to better understand the neural mechanisms behind metaphor generation, a creative skill that plays an important role...
Christopher Nolan To Make First-Ever Commercial Feature Entirely In IMax
Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey, the Oppenheimer director’s epic take on the classic Greek myth, will shoot entirely on Imax film cameras, a first for a commercial feature. - The...
Chicago’s Miracle Mile To Get A Theatre Of Magic
Brainchild of Chicago healthcare entrepreneur Glen Tullman, the sorcery will span 36,000 square feet of the historic McCormick Mansion (formerly home to Lawry's Prime Rib), including not...
How “Etoile” Integrates Real Dancers Into Its Fictional World
“We didn’t want it to be so fictionalized that you didn’t recognize it,” Palladino told IndieWire. “We really want people who know New York...
Trump Hosts Kennedy Center Board Meeting, Says He’ll Fix The Place
“We’re gonna turn it around,” Trump told dinner attendees of the center. He said of running the board, ”When I said, ‘I’ll do this,’...
Lincoln Center’s $335M Redesign Plans
The project, designed by Hood Design Studio (Landscape Architect), Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism (Design Architect) and Moody Nolan (Architect of Record), creates what Lincoln Center describes...
HBO Undoes The Rebranding Mistake Of A Generation
Dropping “HBO,” a label linked to award-winning dramas for decades, removed a trusted shortcut and left viewers asking whether the service had changed its...
Republicans Go After Philanthropies For Taxes
The House tax bill increases taxes on philanthropies. It was news to me that philanthropies pay any taxes at all; I always thought nonprofit...
What NEA Cuts Mean To Small Book Publishers
Without the NEA, today’s most treasured literary organizations might not have survived their infancy as far back as the 1960s. Without these endowments, what...
A History Of Free Speech: How Haphazard It Has Been
What repeatedly surprises about the history of free speech is its incurably accidental nature – reforms undertaken for one set of reasons generate unforeseen...
Why We Won’t Get Artificial General Intelligence Any Time Soon
Opinions differ in part because scientists cannot even agree on a way of defining human intelligence, arguing endlessly over the merits and flaws of...
Podcasters Protest Spotify’s Decision To Post How Many Plays They Get
The chief complaint was that some podcasters actually don’t want listeners to know how many people are listening to their podcast, because it might have the...
Can PBS Survive?
This is unusual because it’s coming from so many different places. That was not the case during the first Trump administration. It was not...
This Book Group Has Been Reading The Same Book For 12 Years
“We’re only reading one page at a time,” said Peter Quadrino, founder and organizer of the Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX. Every other...
CNN Will Live-Broadcast Clooney’s Broadway Murrow Play
CNN is planning a live broadcast of the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed...
Neuroscientists Find Music Can Powerfully Reshape Memory
In other words, positive music increased the likelihood of recalling stories with added positive elements, and negative music increased the likelihood of negative elaborations....
Opera Australia Posts Dismal $10M Deficit
Australia’s largest performing arts company confirmed its Sydney winter season and its much-hyped run of Sunset Boulevard failed to meet box office forecasts but it had...
Harvard Law School Bought A Copy Of The Magna Carta For $27. Turns Out...
British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across the item while looking through Harvard Law School’s online...
The Case For Salonen To Return To The LA Philharmonic
In L.A. he has a venue like no other in Disney Hall. The L.A. Phil is an orchestra more flexible than any other, and...
Texas Proposes Law To Punich Bookstores For Selling “Unsafe” Books
Specifically, the bill, HB 1375, authored by state Rep. Nate Schatzline, R-Fort Worth, would hold bookstores legally liable for the "distribution, transmission, or display...
Is It Ethical To Buy Used Books?
Used-book stores or vintage-record shops, where hidden gems lurk like geodes waiting to be split open, play a role, too. Such venues don’t just...
