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To Cut Carbon Emissions, Look To Ancient Rome
Think of the Pantheon, for instance. "An ancient manufacturing technique can create self-healing concrete that naturally fills in cracks. Using a similar process now...
Poetry Isn’t Dead At All, But Thriving
If you only know where to look, that is. - Washington Post
How TikTok’s Anti-Aesthetic Is Shaping Culture
Performance and repetition rule: "Songs, settings, movements, dances and concepts are relentlessly rehashed, wringing a measure of soothing predictability from TikTok’s general anarchy. ......
The Sign Language Experts Bringing A Wider Range Of Speech To Theatre
As theatres reckon with racial diversity onstage, some of them are also hiring interpreters who speak Black American Sign Language, or hiring other interpreters...
Talking To The Author Of The Most Banned Book In The United States
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: "I drew as much as I felt like I needed to tell the story that I was trying...
Please, Say No To AI Audiobook Narrators
Apple has new AI narrators. They're not great. "Jackson sounds like a pretty standard—if maddening—customer service line voice. ... Madison, on the other hand,...
The Music Of Antarctica
"The space is alive with the sounds of thawing permafrost, cracking ice, grinding glacier. ... 'Sometimes, moving ice can sound like something that’s alive.'"...
The Fraught Process Of Turning An 800-Page Government Report Into An Audiobook
The head of production at Macmillan Audio started months ago. "Betting that the committee’s report would be substantial, accessible and 'very narrative-driven,' he hired...
The Rollout Of Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Been Chaotic
But hoo boy, is it selling. (This year's savior of publishing?) - The New York Times
Apple Tries To Perfect A Portable Karaoke Machine
The claim: "Combining the same kind of vocal-erasing processors used by those bespoke karaoke creators and Apple’s prodigious lyrics database, Sing can instantly engineer...
The Golden Globes Are Back On TV
But please, free to ignore them completely. They never deserved our attention in the first place. - Time
New Rules Of Reading For The New Year
"There are worse ways of groping through the opening murk of another miserable year. ... if you are going to take on a...
Is Poetry Dying, Or Already Dead?
The sales for poetry books - if your name isn't Amanda Gorman - are hovering at approximately zero. What is going on? - Inside...
The United States’ Addiction To Applause
What was the point of all that applause in the House? And what's often the point at plays, for that matter? "Which beaming retinue...
Tar, Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan Complete Film Critic Trifecta
In the run-up to the Oscars, and the film Tár, its lead actor Cate Blanchett, and Everything Everywhere All at Once's Ke Huy Quan...
What Climate Change Is Doing To Book Preservation
"Many experts feel they are in a race against time. A 2018 study published in the Climate Risk Management journal assessed 1,232 archival repositories in the...
Writer Hanif Kureshi Says He May Never Hold A Pen Again After Accident
The novelist and screenwriter (My Beautiful Laundrette) fell in Rome the day after Christmas. He wrote in a series of tweets that he can't...
Time, Impermanence, And The Art Of Kelly Akashi
"She carries the pink baby over to a garden hose and sprays it with water. Suddenly the dull, matte rock transforms into a luminous,...
The UK’s Vinyl Whirl
Press On Vinyl got its pressing machine on Christmas Eve of 2021- and by the end of 2022, were pressing more than 3000 vinyl...
What Should We Do With ‘Giselle’ And Other Problematic Story Ballets?
Sometimes, it's simply time to reimagine. - The New Yorker
BookTok’s Little Tropes Problem
Or rather, it's also publishing's tropes problem - a short-hand way of analyzing some plots, especially in romance fiction, that can lead to, shall...
Keeping The Ancient European Art Of Marquetry Alive In Los Angeles
"As Tunberg became obsessed with marquetry, he studied ancient techniques, including the use of horse hoof glue to combine pieces of veneer. He then...
In The Age Of Peak TV, What You Probably Missed Last Year
If you know, you know. And if you don't, well, read this list of 10 series you could catch up on at some point...
Remembering The NYT’s Andrea Stevens, A No-Nonsense Editor Who Whipped Culture Writers Into Shape
"'It was exhilarating to be edited by Andrea,' said Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and former Times writer. 'Can one feel chastened at...
Why Hollywood Is So In Love With Invented Languages
It's the nerds, basically: "The model for modern language creation lies not in philosophy or international relations, but in the work of the Lord of...
