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The Evolutionary Advantage Of Cuteness
Our hardwired love for "cute" may cause a few issues as "new robotic or artificial personas use cuteness to solicit our affection." - The...
The English Town That’s Been Part Of Every Disney Movie Since 2006
Walt visited an English village and heard a lot of tales about his purported ancestors - and thus, in Norton Disney, was the Disney...
How A Shakespearen Actor Prepares For His Roles
Patrick Page - the voice of Hades in Hadestown - loves being a villain, or, currently, all of Shakespeare's bad guys. - Slate
What The Kilroys Did With Their List
They destroyed it - or rather, transformed it, turned it into a web. Will that work in a world obsessed with rankings? - American...
What Do Book Censorship Advocates Actually Know About Libraries?
Weirdly: "People who do not know how librarians select material are much more likely to also believe librarians should be prosecuted for that material." - BookRiot
Martin Scorsese’s New Film Is Just The Start
If filmmakers want to tell the stories of the Native peoples of the U.S., well, there's a lot to choose from. - Los Angeles...
At The London Film Festival, An Eco-Drama From Japan Takes Top Prize
The film is director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car and "is on first glance a simple tale of corporate capitalism...
The Pilgrimage To Van Gogh’s Starry Night
One visitor to New York and MoMA from North Carolina: "I was in here for a long time. ... And I turned around and...
Art Spiegelman Didn’t Create Maus In Order To Become A Reading Rights Warrior
And yet, such are the times we live in. - Washington Post
Can Book Resumes Prevent Censorship?
This New Jersey librarian thinks that's one tool. (Though the ban-fans usually don't care at all about awards.) - The Mary Sue
Houston Grand Opera Gives Dancers Center Stage
"It’s a big story, and dancers are an integral part of the storytelling force. ... They’re not just coming in for their number or...
Historical Fiction Readers Need To Be Able To See – And Smell – The...
For instance: "If you describe a character running a discarded leather glove scented with lavender under her nose, the reader can feel the cool-then-warm...
Suzanne Somers, Star Of Three’s Company And More, Has Died At 76
Somers demanded equal pay - and was fired for it. - The New York Times
Another Woman Accuses Bill Cosby Of Rape
Her accusation of his drugging and raping her on the set of The Cosby Show adds to the more than 60 other claims. -...
Decades Of Misguided Literacy Instruction Are Finally Ending
But the U.S. remains mired in distrust of public schools, not to mention reading culture. - Slate
No More Skeletons For The American Museum Of Natural History
The museum has 12,000 "human remains," many of enslaved people and Indigenous people, and it plans to take them all off display as urgent...
Duchamp’s Greatest Fakery Was That Urinal
And not because he created it - likely that "R. Mutt" signature is down to German Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. - The Observer...
Horror Films Might Be Good For Mental Health
Your brain on Spooky Szn = happier and healthier. - Salon
The American Ballet Theater Coach Still Working At 90
Irina Kolpakova, who has worked with ABT for decades, "is a consummate coach, her skill evident in her rapid-fire suggestions delivered in an emphatic...
What Does It Look Like, A Good Place To Live?
Dreaming of the town of the future, Britain can look to the past - and to Europe. - The Observer (UK)
The National Book Awards Get A Host Practically Synonymous With Reading
Drew Barrymore got the boot after trying to throw her show's writers under the bus - and her replacement is the Reading Rainbow man...
Iranian Filmmaker And His Screenwriter Wife Killed In Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, "one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema’s new wave movement, and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, 54, a screenwriter and costume designer, were...
Piper Laurie, Who Starred In The Hustler And On Broadway, Has Died At 91
Laurie rebelled against the studio system, volunteered for the McGovern candidacy - and came back to perform in Carrie and Children of a Lesser...
Roald Dahl Was At Once Unreliable And Precious
Thus, Wes Anderson as his adapter seems fated. - The Atlantic
Author Teju Cole Says He’s Avant Garde
But he doesn't want that to mean "unreadable." - The Guardian (UK)
