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How This Actress Quietly Became A Millennial Icon
Aubrey Plaza didn't anchor a blockbuster franchise like Jennifer Lawrence or Kristin Stewart, but she "has had a knack for choosing roles that seem...
Storytelling Changes, But Stories Remain
"Sometimes we can pretend we’re in a moment of stability, despite the ever-changing landscape around us; at other times, it’s all too apparent that...
The Classic Books This Reviewer Never Meant To Read
But then did, and now recommends to everyone. "Literature should not be something we approach out of a sense of duty. But many lengthy,...
What Will The Museum Associated With Eric Gill Do Now His Horrific Abuse Is...
"Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in East Sussex has been more closely associated with Gill than any other artist since it was founded in...
Read Like The Staff Of The Paris Review
Or, what books "temporarily ruined" their lives in 2022. - Paris Review
Ireland’s Cultural Representation In Europe Has Increased Rapidly Since Brexit
The Irish Embassy in Berlin had the idea for a dedicated cultural officer for Germany, and idea that "was so popular that similar roles...
Publishers Hope People Will Read The January 6 Report Cover To Cover
Or at least that they'll buy the proceedings - cleaned up from PDF form, with introductions by politicians or allies - as a book....
This Emily St John Mandel Interview Is A Testament To The Power Of The...
Truly, sort of. Since the author of Station Eleven said once in an interview that she was married, she couldn't convince Wikipedia she was...
Steven Spielberg Is Sorry That Jaws Has Led To So Many Shark Deaths
The director "has conceded that perhaps the Oscar-winning 1975 thriller was too effective at conjuring fear of the defamed creatures, admitting he is 'truly...
Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop...
The Vatican Will Return Its Parthenon Fragments To Greece
"The pope called the return a 'donation' to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to...
When Alexander Inarritu Went Hollywood
The director of the new film Bardo, an Oscar-winner for Birdman and The Revenant, didn't want to leave Mexico, but, he says, "There wasn’t...
Russia Is Looting Ukraine Museums’ Scythian Gold
"Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to...
Movies Depicting Jewish American Experiences Are Few And Far Between
"Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox...
How The Bloomsbury Group Came To Change Art And Literature In England
The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - and their...
What Set Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Apart As A Dancer
He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, "his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a...
Taking The Music Documentary Far Behind, And Beyond, The Music
As a new crop of music documentaries' directors confirm, "Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of...
Adrienne Mancia, Who Brought The World In Film To New York, 95
At MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was a film curator who "scoured the world for significant films and brought them to...
London’s First, Groundbreaking Arabic-Language Bookshop To Close
Al Saqi, a literary institution that opened in 1978, will close at the end of 2022. One of the owners: "You'd meet Arabs in...
Evelyn Waugh’s Mansion Sells, But Superfans Living There Refuse To Leave
Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: "We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and...
Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too...
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
"What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as...
Storytelling May Save The Planet, If Anything Can
"The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication." - Wired
The New Museum Of Broadway Is A Shrine To Theatre’s Hard-Fought Battles
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41...
Dear News Junkies, Here’s How To Adjust To Life Without Twitter
It's not easy - and the long-ago murder of Google Reader by that tech company doesn't make it easier - but there are ways....
