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British Comedians Based In Los Angeles Deserve A New Queen
Gina Yashere knows. "I came here thinking I’m a great comic, I’m going to earn a living immediately, just from the comedy — until...
Phantom Of The Opera Will Exit Broadway In Early 2023, Victim Of COVID-19
Phantom "was the Hamilton of its day. To put its staying power in perspective, ... Into the Woods opened during the same season as Phantom. That fairytale-themed musical is...
Black Characters Make Fantasy Media Better
It's more than just dunking on people who think (white) mermaids are real. "These new visions of classic fantasy worlds and characters are simply...
Ian McEwan Says The Perfect Book Is Always Just Outside Of His Reach
"I’m sometimes asked about fiction I wrote 50 years ago and it’s cheering to know that for readers there is no time dimension. Books...
What’s Up With The Portrayal Of Twins On The Screen?
A new film, based on a real-life pair of twins, aims to upend the narrative of identical twins as creepy, potential serial killers. -...
Arts Groups In Britain Start To Scramble For New Royal Figureheads
No beloved arts Princess, no Prince Consort, no Queen: Who will take over? "Although a 2020 study found no proof that charities benefit financially...
Historical Fiction Takes Messy Real Lives And Turns Them Into Neat Stories
"Once maligned as lowbrow, the genre has gained popularity over the past two decades" - perhaps because of social media and our hyper-aware lives....
The Culture War Over Which Star Trek (Or Treks) Are Real
Well, you might say, not a one is real. We don't have matter transporters, faster than light engines, or for that matter a Federation....
An Uyghur Author And His Translator Have Been Disappeared
And so his English translator says now's the time for Perhat Turson's bleak novel finally to come out in English. "They deserve to have...
Playwright Sarah Ruhl On Writing A Memoir, And The Medical Trauma Behind That Memoir
"While I don’t think of myself as someone who would have judged by appearances much before Bell’s palsy, it has given me a greater...
Allegations Of Child Exploitation Keep Director Of ‘Sparta’ Away From Spanish Film Festival
"Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has cancelled his visit to San Sebastian for the Sept. 18 world premiere of Sparta, amid allegations of impropriety and child exploitation...
How Did A Fictional Bear From Peru Become The Queen Of England’s Psychopomp?
"For all the madness on display, there are, however, reasons to cautiously celebrate what has become of Paddington. ... Paddington is nearly as old...
The Vicious, Accelerating Attacks On Books From The Right Wing
"Public libraries have been threatened by politicians and community members with a loss of funding for their refusal to remove books. Members of the...
The Industrial Visions Of Artists Who Lived A Century Ago
The artists believed factories were the future. "Diagonal lines hint at stained glass—and at the notion, widespread at the time, ... that industrial structures...
Independent Radio Stations Are Under Threat In Britain
Why? Energy bills. "Autumn has arrived with stark warnings from industry bodies, including UK Music and the Music Venue Trust (MVT), that live venues,...
Copyright Is Disgustingly Broken
"The People’s Joker is ... an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain’s origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break...
The Married Couple Who Writes (Dozens Of Bestsellers) Together, Stays Together?
How do the people making up the Ilona Andrews brand do it? Gordon Andrews: "We have argued about the fate of certain characters. Who...
How German Playwrights And Writers Gave Us All A Sense Of Self
The modern idea of the self emerged "in a quiet university town called Jena, some 150 miles southwest of Berlin. It was there that,...
The Lawsuit That Is Threatening The Entire Internet Archive
Early in the pandemic, "the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many...
Let’s Talk About That NC-17 Rating For The Netflix Marilyn Monroe Biopic
The history of the rating is, one might say, fraught. But Netflix isn't a movie theatre; why does it have an NC-17 rating on...
The Not So Comfortable Discussions About Sidney Poitier
Poitier was "a man who both aspired and inspired just as much as he frustrated and disappointed. We rarely ever really talk about that...
Winnie The Pooh Stars In A New Horror Movie
Thanks, public domain! No, but truly, thank you for expiring, copyright. We now have everything from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to "all-time classic"...
France’s Anonymous Street Artist Fills The Cracks With Colorful Mosaics
Ememem "has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in...
YouTube’s Chaos Led To Its Massive Rise
Why doesn't its history with a content provider who had zillions of subscribers - but was a favorite of the neo-Nazis - get the...
Peak TV Is Making The Emmys A Lot Weirder
There are so, so many series out there - 500 or more, and "the crush of programming means that even worthy shows struggle for...
