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As An Irish Literary Festival Turns Forty, There’s An ‘Explosion’ Of Irish Lit Worldwide
“Cúirt is the time when all of us grassroots people get to celebrate literature and writing in our own city. ... Writers are very...
What’s Wrong With The Algos?
"I couldn’t figure out why any computer program would suggest that a person attending an Australian journalist’s lecture about a distant Hungarian relative selling...
Twenty-One States Sue The Feds For Trying To Dismantle Agency Funding Libraries And Museums
“The suit argues that the steep cuts and at two other small agencies violate both the Constitution and other federal laws related to...
Ireland Gets The Most Beautiful Sewage Treatment Plant In The World
Perhaps that’s not a long list, but still - its design is inspired by the Sydney Opera House, and the plant “stands like a...
How Does Reductress So Deeply, Accurately, And Concisely Satirize Readers?
“You can only make jokes about an enemies to lovers romance novel about two rival realtors who are also randomly immortal werewolves just trying...
An Unlikely Arts Oasis Arises In LA, Built Partly With LACMA’s Rubble
Conceptual artist David Horwitz has created the 7th Avenue Garden in an empty lot, turning it into “a small but verdant oasis that hosts...
It’s A Myth That Bilingual Kids Are Slower In Both Languages At First
The problem is in the evaluators, not the kids: “‘Code-mixing, or using two languages in the same sentence, is often interpreted as confusion. It's actually...
Internet ‘Views’ Are Lies
That’s right, we’ve built a whole architecture - and funded people’s lives, or defunded their jobs entirely - based on nothing but lies. -...
Tracy Chapman, Ready To Rerelease Her Debut Album On Vinyl, May Someday Tour Again
She’s always in the studio, she says - and in addition, “I play and I sing, probably annoying people around me,’ she added....
The Japanese American National Museum In Los Angeles Takes A Stand Against DOGE
The board chairman knows a thing or two about governmental overreach. “‘Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the...
What To Do If You Wake Up With A Banksy On Your House
“You'll have to make a series of clever decisions to come out of it unscathed.” - BBC
Kevin Young, Head Of The Smithsonian’s National Museum Of African American History And Culture,...
“His departure comes as President Trump has targeted the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in an executive...
It Takes More Than AI Slop To Create A Real Studio Ghibli Production
“The Ghiblification of OpenAI’s image generation launch was likely a calculated move to ensure that people viewed the new feature in a good light.”...
What To Say To A Friend After A Rough Theatre Performance
Basically, lie (unless you’re a critic, in which case say nothing until the review). One actor: “It takes incredible amounts of bravery to be...
Beloved Los Angeles Landmarks Face An Uncertain Post-Fire Future
For instance, at the destroyed Zane Grey estate: “How to rebuild the site in a way that preserves Grey's legacy while protecting it from...
Roxane Gay And Debbie Millman Take Over Literary Magazine The Rumpus
Novelist and essayist Gay said, “The Rumpus was one of the first places where my writing found a significant audience, and it helped shape me into...
A Rising Star Conductor Makes Her Met Debut
Joana Mallwitz “did not come from a musical family. Her talent on the piano at home in Hildesheim was quickly apparent, but for three...
Why The Current Administration Is Threatening Libraries
And why it’s so deeply, furiously urgent to save them. - Salon
Linda Williams, Scholar Who Essentially Invented Feminist Film Theory, Has Died At 78
“Her most headline-grabbing work focused on pornographic films, which she saw as worthy of consideration as a discrete genre — and worthy of scholarly...
If The Minnesota State Capitol Were On Fire, Its Historian Would Save This Painting
Why would historic site manager Brian Pease save The Battle of Nashville? The Capitol “was finished in 1905, only 40 years after the Civil...
Writing In The Dance Steps of Pina Bausch
“On that island of quest, … Pina occupied my thoughts. She became an inspiration and a companion during my sleepless nights, often spent poring...
In Berlin, Fine Tattoo Art Is Thriving
“Works on Skin sells artwork in numbered limited editions of 100, initially for €100 each but reaching up to €2,000 for the last remaining...
Canada’s Classical And Jazz Juno Awards Include A Win For Inuk Opera Soprano
"Deantha Edmunds was the 2025 winner of the Classical Composition of the Year Juno Award. Her project Angmalukisaa (the Inuktitut word for ‘round') was part on...
In Texas, A Librarian Standing Up For Her Students’ Rights To Read Is Threatened...
“This is a book ban, and I am not going to participate in a book ban,” Georgetown High School librarian Susan Cooper said. “I...
Tate Britain Will Return A Nazi-Looted Work To The Family Of A Belgian Art...
“Painter Henry Gibbs' 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as 'an act of racial persecution,' said...
