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The Year-End Book List You’ve Been Waiting For
The 173 best book covers out there. Yes, 173. - LitHub
Is Filmmaking Actually Meeting The Political Moment?
Maybe? “This isn’t a bad batting average, with movies about everything from the melding of Silicon Valley and politics to authoritarianism, nationalism and racism....
What Was Dance Magazine Focusing On During The Sixties?
The magazine, called something else earlier, has been around since before the Great Depression. In the 1960s, though, "dance emerged as a potent form...
It’s A Wonderful Life Has A Lot Of Life Lessons
And hey, why not learn three keys to financial literacy from one of the most highly played Christmas movies in the world? (Actually! This...
Physical Media Is Becoming Cool Again
Whether it’s thanks to Gen-Z or thanks to a (terrifying) nonstop surveillance state intertwined with our televisions and speakers, CDs and DVDs are making...
Rob Reiner, Director Of When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap...
Reiner was “a writer, director, producer, actor and political activist whose career in Hollywood spanned more than six decades and included some of the most...
Rob Reiner, Actor Turned Director, And His Wife Michele Found Dead In Los Angeles
News broke late Sunday night that "the Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating an ‘apparent homicide’ at the couple’s home in West...
What Would It Take To Make Concert Tickets Accessible Again?
It’s clear that what we need is two policy changes: "Capping or curbing resale, so that you can only pass a ticket on at...
How Letterboxd Took Over – And Improved – Amateur Movie Reviewing
“One of my friends has cultivated a list of 30 movies about ‘Fucked-Up British People,’ while I made ‘crash out cinema,’ a collection of...
Dick Van Dyke At 100 Is A Fully Wonderful Argument For Dancing Every Day...
“He has outlived mentors, co-stars, romantic partners and several studios. He’s even outlived the jokes about his performance in Mary Poppins. These days his mangled...
How YouTube Made A Snack Out Of Podcasts And Then Ate Television For Dessert
“Short-form video, autoplay feeds, and video podcasts are reshaping our attention, our politics, and even our sense of self—turning podcasts into background ‘wallpaper’ while...
The Royal Society Of Literature Names Elif Shafak Its New President
Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, has a popular appeal across the globe: She "is the author of 21 books, including 13...
How Alban Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ Keeps On Shocking Its Audience, A Century On
“The music is thoroughly and smoothly integrated with the plot, representing opera in its purest ideal of form.” - The New York Times
A Startup Wants To Relaunch Twitter
The group Operation Bluebird claims Elon Musk’s X has legally abandoned Twitter (not to mention the word “tweet”), and wants to relaunch. If you...
The Smithsonian Returns Suspected Looted Khmer Artifacts To Cambodia
The National Museum of Asian Art’s "records showed that there were no export licenses for the objects, as required under Cambodian law, and that...
Why The Pope Would Like The Newest Knives Out
It actively engages with Catholicism and belief - and not in a surface way. That’s vanishingly rare. - Vulture
Enrico Morricone Finally Gets His Opera Premiere
But sadly, he’s not here to see it. “Why the opera was not performed when it was written, in 1995, offers a snapshot of...
Whether It’s TikTok Or Celebrity Book Groups Or Both, Some Books Turn Into Surprise...
Sometimes it’s timing - or a good translation. Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection didn’t find its audience in Italy, but English readers love it. It “has...
Museums Were Prepared For Vandals, But Not For Thieves
Two recent heists “represent a different threat altogether, one involving weapons, threats to staff, getaway vehicles, and missing artworks worth over $100 million, all...
The Definitive Oral History Of How Jim Carrey’s Grinch Movie Really Did Steal Christmas
The rewriters who didn’t get a credit: “The way that Writers Guild arbitration process works is that if you arbitrate for credit and you...
This Free Web Serial Turned Into A Book Series With Millions Of Books Sold
Oh, people don’t read anymore? Tell that to Matt Dinniman, who was making a living drawing people’s cats (yes, that’s a job) until he...
There’s A PR Push From AI Companies To Say Data Centers Might Not Be...
A lot depends on where you are. “In the near term, it's not a concern and it's not a nationwide crisis. … But it...
The Toughest Shot In Cinema Got A New Entry This Year
“The long take, the unbroken tracking shot, ‘the oner’ — whatever you want to call it, … it’s a feat of creativity, but...
Madeleine Wickham, Whose Pen Name Was Sophie Kinsella, Has Died At 55
“The works under her pen name came to define Ms. Wickham’s career. She wrote nine Shopaholic novels, which sold tens of millions of copies...
Peter Greene, Actor In Pulp Fiction And The Mask, Has Died At 60
“Over a four-decade career, Mr. Greene stood comfortably in a villain’s shoes, bringing to life a range of characters who unnerved audiences with their...
