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An Honest, Anonymous Account Of Life On The Writers’ Picket Line
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within...
Can Romance Novels Please Get Rid Of The Struggling Single Mom Trope?
The protagonists are cut from the same cookie cutter mold. "Readers, let us all take a moment to silently contemplate her self-sacrifice, the definitive...
Making A Michael J. Fox Movie From Old Michael J. Fox Movies
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV...
The Writing Collaborators Who Help Keep Celebrities Grounded
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and...
Britain Tries To Figure Out Why Its EuroVision Entry Didn’t Work Out As Hoped
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of...
Ken Loach Says This Is His Last Film
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight...
The Hottest Thing In Streaming
It's not Disney Plus, Netflix, or any of the other "majors." Instead it's Fox's Tubi, which is free (and has ads). Is this the...
Author Whose Books Freak People Out Says That’s Not Her Plan
Ottessa Moshfegh: "My God, the world is violent. Why should fiction pretend it’s not?" - The Guardian (UK)
Google’s AI Is Truly The Offspring Of Clippy
"Google’s Duet is surely in a different league, both in terms of its reading comprehension and the quality of the text that the generative...
For Indigenous Artists, It’s All About Survivance
The concept addresses Indigenous artists "with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation." - Hyperallergic
Is This Installation Artist Perfect For The Information Age?
Sarah Sze, who is about to take over a huge unused railway station waiting room in London, is thinking abotu AI. "We’ve created a...
Romance On The Picket Line
One of the writers at the event "Strike Up a Romance" said, "This would be the perfect time to write a romcom, though, of,...
The Fiery Teamster Who’s Giving The WGA Priceless Rhetoric And Solidarity
Lindsay Dougherty: "If we all want to get what's ours, we are going to have to fight for it tooth and nail. ... If...
The Father And Son Duo Who Just Won A Pulitzer
"Watching your kid go into journalism is like hearing he wants to rappel into a volcano to rescue a puppy." - The Atlantic
Pop-Up Rembrandt Tattoos Are Now A Thing That Exists
"In one of the more extreme attempts to attract a younger audience post-Covid, the newly renovated museum in Amsterdam is launching a 'poor man’s Rembrandt project.'"...
Stagehand And Craft Workers Come Out To Support Writers
"The writers strike on May 2 has created hardships for many in the industry, including IATSE members who have lost scheduled jobs as productions...
The Big World Of Dollhouse Miniature Art
There's "a new generation of miniature makers, following in the footsteps of artists like Laurie Simmons, bringing the genre out from the home, into the...
Please Stop This Foolishness
Shakespeare was Shakespeare. The rest is idiocy. "While to most of us, a poem explicitly mentioning Shakespeare and crediting him with writing 'The Rape...
What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Talent
The conductor, coming to New York in 2026, has many recordings. The NYT says, "he comes off as a very capable musician, but one...
Speaking Of Eurovision, Congrats To Sweden’s Loreen
The singer, "who previously triumphed in 2012 with Euphoria, narrowly beat Finland’s Kaarija after the public and jury votes were combined." She's the first...
Elena Ferrante May Win Eurovision
That is, the Eurovision Book Contest. "In March, the literary festival asked the public to submit their favourite fiction from any of the...
Live Tony Awards Are A Truly Depressing Casualty Of The Writers’ Strike
This isn't great for theatre: "The Tonys have long been a prestigious event for CBS, but the show itself is more important to Broadway producers,...
Samantha Irby Writes About Whatever She Wants To, And She’s Not Sorry
Irby "received hate mail from fans who believed had somehow blasphemed their beloved Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. Her response ... is an...
Hollywood Was Built On The Hard-Typing Fingers Of Underpaid Writers
Raymond Chandler, in 1945, "described Hollywood as a cauldron of 'egos,' 'credit stealing' and 'self-promotion' where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of...
Now That He’s King, Could Charles Please Declare A Truce With Modern Architecture?
"Might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have...
