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How A Tiny, Newish Bay Area Publisher Snagged The Nobel Prizewinner’s Books
Of course, Jon Fosse hadn't won when Transit Books got its start. - Los Angeles Times
Balanchine Biography On British Prize Short List
One judge on the 784-page Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans: "I’m hopeless on the dancefloor, ... but this book takes...
The Ken Dream Ballet Sequence Almost Didn’t Happen
Barbie director Greta Gerwig: "There was a big meeting that was like, ‘Do you need this?' And I was like, ‘Everything in me needs...
Literary Folks In New York Want Books To Get So Much Sexier
Literary books, that is (guessing most of them don't know much about the open door, spicy romance subgenre). - Vulture
The Banned Books Bus Tour Kicks Off
The U.S.'s fervor for banning books (based, studies say, on 11 people's complaints) is being met with busloads of the censored cultural capital. ...
Films Are So Much More Than Their Plots
A movie's story is not always - nor even often - the thing. - The New York Times
Irish Writers Like Colm Toibin Share In The AI Training Disgust
Poet Vona Groarke: "I think my voice is being appropriated, my life, in a strange way, I fear, is also being appropriated, my sensitivity,...
As Frieze London Turns 20, The Art World Is A Radically Different Place
Fairs expanding geographically? Nope. Smart phones? In the future. Instagram? No way. - The New York Times
Can The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Recover From The Past Few Years?
A financial review shows that the festival gets up to 80 percent of its budget from ticket sales - a high number that puts...
The Lost Buildings Of Britain’s Most Influential Modernist Architect
Georgie Wolton launched the careers of Norman Foster and Richard Rogert, but all that's left of her legacy now is a house in deep...
Hong Kong Man Sentenced To Prison For Importing Children’s Books
"The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books, the sheep take...
We’re Inside The Orwellian Nightmare
Social media's rewards for rage and hate are immediate, and terrifying. - The Guardian (UK)
Amazon Will Blind Us To The Night Sky
Astronomers aren't happy about the proposed 3200 (!) satellites. - Wired
The Painter Asserting Personhood, Against Picasso And Gauguin
Claudette Johnson: "It’s good to know that there will be another story being told about women, Black women, Black people, that counters some of...
Post-Shooting ‘Rust’ Lawsuits Enter A New Chapter
A judge orders the movie's producers to turn over records to prosecutors. - Los Angeles Times
European Club Music Has Gotten Too Fast For Human Feet To Follow
The speed of music is being shaped by Gen Zers who are bursting with years of lockdown energy - and the fear it may...
In Britain, Indie Vinyl And CD Companies Are Worried
They're stressed for a variety of reasons - and one is that major labels are muscling their way back in. - The Guardian (UK)
Generative AI Is A Real Mess
But tech companies certainly don't care one bit. - Vice
A New Film In The Quest To Never Forget
"My mother was taken. I remember the last thing she said to me was, 'Be good, I’ll be back.'" - The Guardian(UK)
Jessica Lange Is Extremely Over Comic Book Movies
She says it's time to retire: "The emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your...
The ‘Dangerous’ Movie For Couples
Not Barbie, though the summer was filled with tales of women leaving their boyfriends after suddenly understanding the patriarchy. Fair Play is an autumn...
Rock Hudson’s Semi-Secret Double Life
A new biographer says,"Let’s be frank about it: he was a horndog!" - The Guardian (UK)
When Dancers Imitate Video Game Characters
This is 2023: On TikTok, "dancers are particularly adept at moving like a machine’s version of a human. That helps creators ... capture more of what...
Filmmaker Terence Davies Dies At 77
Davies, who won numerous awards with his semi-autobiographical work as well as the adaptation of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, was working on a...
The Loneliness, And Creativity, Of Zora Neale Hurston
The writer "was able to form an entire worldview out of her own pain of isolation." - LitHub
