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Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?
"Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their...
Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”
"The books are kind of incidental. What we're really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?...
Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations
The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters....
Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival
Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival's chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she'll...
New York State Is Dropping Mask Requirements, But Broadway Is Not
"Broadway's mask and vaccination policy will remain in place through at least April 30, the most recent extension date for the policy announced last...
Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four...
King Tut Was Not A Significant Pharaoh, Yet The Modern World Remains Fascinated By...
"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the...
The Index At The Back Of The Book Deserves More Respect
The story of the index "is, on one level, a history of information science, but it's also a history of reading and writing and...
Sting Sells His Back Catalogue For An Enormous Sum
The rocker has sold "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and the rest of his songs to Universal Music for a price believed to be...
Polish Government’s Holocaust Revisionism Is Scaring Some Historians
"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's...
2021 Wasn’t Supposed To Have Been The Year Of The Movie Musical, But …
By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but...
Space Choreography: Redefining Movement For Extremely Low Gravity
Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big...
At 90, John Williams Says He Is Giving Up Composing Film Music
He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring:...
On His First Day On The Job, A Museum Guard Vandalized A Painting With...
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Use TikTok To Market Low-Price Tickets To Young People
The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions...
How “Sleep No More” Has Changed New York Theater — And Itself
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on...
The Two Pieces By George Crumb That Changed American Contemporary Classical Music
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of...
A Childhood Friend Of Charlie Chaplin Remembers His “Always Hungry”, “Ragged” Early Years
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a...
The Former President Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Remembers 36 Years In The...
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic...
The Real Story Behind The Famous Bust Of Nefertiti (It’s Not What You Probably...
It was not an object of veneration, it was not meant for public display, and it wasn't considered valuable in its day except to...
One Of Ukraine’s Strongest Defenses Against Russian Aggression Is The Ukrainian Language
For much of the past century in Ukraine, Russian has taken precedence over Ukrainian, even in the post-Soviet period. These days one hears more...
There’s A Whole Body Of Women’s Novels In Yiddish That Are Finally Reaching English-Speakers
The originals were mostly published as serials in Yiddish newspapers and never made it into bound volumes in any language until now. Says one...
Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
