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The New Wuthering Heights Treats One Of Its Women Very, Very Badly
“The film Isabella is a narrative tool for Heathcliff rather than developing in her own right. She becomes another victim of ‘fridging,’ a term coined...
South Africa Has Pulled Out Of The Venice Biennale
“The move comes after the country’s right-wing culture minister Gayton McKenzie scrapped a pavilion proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo.” They said,...
Why Discord’s Age Verification Idea Isn’t Going According To Plan
Hackers discovered the Peter Thiel-backed verification software, Persona, "bundled in an interface that pairs facial recognition with financial reporting – and a parallel implementation...
Rediscovering The Classic Cassette Tape Player
For Spencer Richardson, who finds, repairs, and sells tape players, “his customers include older baby boomers and Gen X‑ers nostalgic for the players of...
Willie Colon, Trombonist And Bandleader, Producer And Composer, Has Died At 75
Colón’s “driving musical energy and mischievous bad-boy image — he was long promoted as ‘El Malo’ — helped made him a luminary of New...
The Berlinale Has Been A Complex Mess Of Politics. Why?
“The Berlinale has gained a reputation as the most overtly political of the major festivals, not only for its programming choices, but for its...
James Cameron Slams Netflix And Weighs In On The Side Of Paramount For Warner...
Cameron even wants the U.S. Senate to block the Netflix bid. Either way, “the clock is ticking, but for those who may not be...
Our Inability To Focus On Books Isn’t A Failing
It’s a design flaw, and it can be fixed. “We have been here before. Not just once, but repeatedly, in a pattern so consistent...
Bow To Trump’s Vision Of The Country If You Want A Grant, Museums And...
“The directive to hew to Trump’s preferences unnerved some grant writers, reviewers and former recipients accustomed to nonpartisanship from the agency, stirring debate over...
AMC Started Playing An AI-Generated ‘Film’ Before Movies, But Had To Stop Almost Immediately
“Some called for boycotts. Some found it insulting that if pre-show screen time were being given to short films, AMC would feature AI-generated content...
From The British Point Of View, What Really Are The BAFTAs Anymore?
One British producer in a year in which exactly one British actor was nominated in the two major acting awards: “The Baftas fall between...
Why The BAFTAs Are Important, From The Point Of View Of The Oscars
If you’re in Hollywood, well, “the BAFTAs are the British movie industry’s major award show and also widely seen as a bellwether for the...
Toni Morrison, And The Power Of Ambiguity
“Fiction has no obligation to dispel ambiguity. It can make use of it—even intensify it—in order to evoke and transform experience. In Beloved, Morrison does take...
When ‘The Pitt’ Wanted To Portray A Rape Kit Collection Storyline, They Called In...
The writers didn’t want to focus on the survivor’s trauma. “The story serves to bolster the emotional arc of the show’s healthcare providers, in...
How Cornwall Shaped British Writers, And British Imagination
Winston Graham of Poldark, Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, and many other writers drew - and continue to draw - inspiration from the moors,...
The British Museum Has Removed The Word Palestine And Palestinians From Its Middle East...
“Concerns were recently raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of solicitors, about references to ‘Palestine’ in displays covering the ancient Levant and...
How Pokémon Became A Source Of Massive Soft Cultural Power
It’s a card game! It’s an app! It’s a movie! It’s a meme! It’s a stuffie (or a lot of stuffies)! But truly, what...
Berlinale Defends Jury President Wim Wenders Post-Soundbite About Gaza That Led Arundhati Roy To...
The festival head said, "Artists should not be expected to comment on all broader debates about a festival’s previous or current practices over which...
Bring Back Ski Ballet!
Nothing is “nutty” in the Olympics now. Ski ballet was a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992, but "unlike the other two freestyle disciplines,...
How Many Times Can One Man Win Cowboy Poet Of The Year, A Real...
At least three. “The Western Music Association describes the award as recognizing a person who writes ‘with imaginative power and beauty of thought, with...
The Women Of Bauhaus
“The German art school turned political and cultural engine founded in 1919,” and its “principles included absolute equality between male and female participants — or...
How Toni Morrison’s Courage And Daring Shaped The Way We Think
“She became the only black woman ever to win the Nobel prize in literature. But the facts remain: she is difficult to read. She is difficult...
Behind The Scenes Of The Lion Dance
“Because information about lion dancing in English is scarce, Chan led a group of Kei Lun Martial Arts members on a research trip to...
As Minneapolis Starts Construction On A Memorial To George Floyd, It’s Dealing With Two...
The mayor’s office says Minneapolis is “actively working on next steps, including continued community engagement regarding both memorials.” - Minnesota Public Radio
We Need To Talk About Heathcliff, Emily Bronte, And Race
“The ‘dynamics of this novel are about otherness in various ways, and that otherness is in Heathcliff.’ Onscreen, however, Heathcliff has largely been played...
