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The Murder Of Salman Rushdie’s Japanese Translator Remains Unsolved, More Than 30 Years On
"The translator , Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death at age 44 at Tsukuba University, northeast of Tokyo, where he had been teaching comparative...
Emma Thompson Has No Time For Sean Bean’s Freakout About Intimacy Coordinators
Thompson: "Intimacy coordinators are the most fantastic introduction in our work. And no, you can’t just ‘let it flow’. ... There’s a camera there...
Ukrainian Children Bring A Play From A Bomb Shelter To Brooklyn
The show is Mom on Skype, and "is a series of seven monologues about family separation told from the perspective of children." - The...
Musician Who Was Against The COVID Vaccine Sues Los Angeles Times For Reporting That...
Joseph Arthur says that the article left him "shunned and avoided," and says that the headline calling him "anti-vax" was wrong because he hadn't...
Peter Beagle Finally Regains Control Of His Work
A lengthy court battle concludes with the author of The Last Unicorn wresting control of his finances and his work back from a manager....
Tatiana Maslany Is Nobody’s Token Superhero
True, she is playing a woman who accidentally joins Bruce Banner in Hulkdom. But the idea of a strong female lead doesn't do it...
How Digital Content Leads Artists To Endless Tinkering
Some might call it endless fixing, but whatever it is, digital copies mean the art can be changed or deleted at will. "If you...
How Did The TikTok-Based ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Get So Big, And Then So Cancelled?
The creators of songs about the books (and TV show) won a Grammy, the author said she was humming their songs in the shower,...
The Most Compelling Thing In Literature Isn’t Certainty Or Self-Improvement
It's engagement, the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen next - and it's not about becoming a better person, says author and critic...
The Great Partnership Of Filmmaker Hiyao Miyazaki And Composer Joe Hisaishi
For concerts, Hisaishi takes portions of his scores from films like My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso, turning them into entirely new symphonic experiences...
Teacher Quits After His Bulletin Board Featuring The Pledge Of Allegiance Is Taken Down
Of course, the Pledge isn't what got the teacher's bulletin board torn down by a co-worker. No - it was the people saying the...
Lost Banksy Reappears In A Tel Aviv Art Gallery
"Slingshot Rat, a stencil painting, appeared on a concrete block at an abandoned Israeli army position in Bethlehem next to a section of the...
On The Violent Attack On Salman Rushdie
"Writers represent the part of our culture that engages with humanity through ideas, whose passion is expressed through sentences and paragraphs and pages. It’s...
The Joyful Bicycles Of Jean-Jacques Sempe
Sempé, who died on Thursday at 89, had a whimsical style. "His ink cartoons were often set in a mythical mid-century Paris or millennial...
The Lucerne Festival Finally Wants To Diversify
But can its audience deal with the changes? - The New York Times
For Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers, A Shift In Representation
An Indigenous crew member "remains cautiously optimistic about the future of Indigenous inclusion in the film industry," and actor Michelle Thrush says that "well-thought-out...
A Ukrainian Orchestra, Far From Home
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra "coalesced quickly around a mission to stage, as the Met news release put it, 'artistic defense' of its homeland. Its...
Artists Who Say The Tate Silenced Them Agree To Six-Figure Settlements
"The payout illuminates a years-long issue facing Tate surrounding alleged sexual misconduct." - Hyperallergic
How Word Games Give Us A Sense Of Control In An Out Of Control...
"I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning. Death counts, infection rates, mass shootings,...
Actress Anne Heche Has Died At 53
Heche, an Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor, was declared brain dead six days after a fiery one-car crash in L.A. The Daily Beast said that...
The Right To Repair Movement Is Now Reaching Everything Electronic, Including Tractors
"After years of controversy in the United States over right-to-repair, the movement seems to have reached a turning point." - Wired
How ‘Prey’ Figured Out Indigenous Rep
One of the actors: Don't doubt the concept. Before contact with Europeans, North America "was a pretty hoppin’ area. And they were pretty skilled...
The Terrifying Rise Of Anti-Muslim Hate Music In India
"The lyrics are abusive or threatening. They are usually based on the premise that Hindus have suffered for centuries at the hands of Muslims...
Quiet Sonic Soundscapes Are For The Rich
"Nearly 60 percent of recent grievances center on what I’d consider lifestyle choices: music and parties and people talking loudly. But one person’s loud is...
Why And How Some Musicians Are Updating Their Music Once It’s Already Out
It's digital files, of course. - NPR
