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The Limits Of The Advice To Write 500 Words A Day
Graham Greene's advice might have been rather ... specific. "Greene could have kids and write 500 words first thing every day because he had...
Who’s Making And Selling Racist Coins On Ebay?
Like the one that celebrates the U.S. Border Patrol's whipping, from horseback, of Haitian refugees? "Unofficial coins ... are funded independently and reflect a...
Who’s Responsible For The Death Threats To The Critics Of A Book?
British publishing surely does not know, or want to deal with it. "You’re not being cancelled, you’re being challenged. You’re not used to being...
The COVID Outbreak On The Show Expats
What happened after the outbreak, including a shutdown by Hollywood unions on the Amazon Studios set, "highlights the delicate balancing act facing Hollywood as...
Saving A Language Through Techno Music
"Benoit Fader Keita never intended to make electro music. But after a sell-out first show in Dakar last month, the singer believes the genre...
Why Do We Forget The Books We’ve Read?
Two big reasons: Interference - that is, the other books we've read get in the way; and passive engagement. That is, if you write...
Insurrection, Foretold In US Monuments
"Stone Mountain is a shining example of selective amnesia and Lost Cause propaganda. And the inventions of the Lost Cause bear a remarkable parallel to the...
On The Jewishness Of Pinter And Stoppard
"In the New York theatre, ... the fact that these two major figures happened to be Jewish may seem inconsequential. But in the universe...
Ballet Is The Pursuit Of Perfection
Siphe November, who's 23 and has risen through the ranks to become the youngest principal dancer in the National Ballet of Canada's history, "has...
As A Child, Sarah Polley Feared For Her Life On Terry Gilliam’s Chaotic Film...
On The Adventures of Baron Munchausen set, "Blasts of debris exploded on the ground around me, accompanied by deafening booms that made me feel...
Whose Venice Is It?
The Biennale is ticking along, and controversy remains: Some Venetians "feel that the Biennale, aided by the current city government, is monopolizing space that...
The Music That Gets The Deepest Inside Our Heads
Yes, it's videogame music. "When we hear this music outside gameplay, it can prove unusually moving. The first time I caught the London Video Game...
Why Did The Well-Liked, Newish Director Of MoMA’s PS1 Suddenly Resign?
Kate Fowle took up her position just before the pandemic started, so the last two and a half years have been, as they say,...
What Types Of Conflict Are Good For Democracies?
In order to live together, and to acknowledge each other and engage each other in a democratic society, conflict is necessary. Otherwise, we risk...
In The Wake Of Mass Shootings, Showrunners Pledge To Depict Guns Differently
"A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to...
Lightyear Is The Latest Movie Banned In Saudi Arabia And Other Countries
The censorious countries can't stand that Lightyear contains a nanosecond of a same-sex kiss, of course. - The Hollywood Reporter
Activists Have Had It With The Buyers Of Looted Antiquities
The problems of informal payments and freeports mean that "Western collectors are buying without fear of much reprisal, despite the already present provisions in international law...
A Dancer Who Fled Moscow Tried To Counter Russian Propaganda
Half of Laura Fernandez's family is Ukrainian, so when the then-Stanislavsky Theatre first soloist heard her Russian peers describe "the destruction of the Ukrainian city...
A British Documentarian Says Social Media Gives Traditionally Marginalized People A Voice
Asif Kapadia also says that he wishes he'd discussed mental health more while making the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy. - The Observer (UK)
Is Life Random Or Not?
Some physicists bat it around, with the help of art: "We meet up, sometimes over a drink, to exchange ideas and share our latest...
Why Is The Art World In Love With Basketball Right Now?
Fans of the sport and the arts might ask, "Why not?" but also, you know, why? "'It’s like the best sport ever,' said Jonas...
Almost Half Of US Museums Focus On A Small Percentage Of Contemporary Artists
And, real shocker, those numbers don't favor women - except, unexpectedly, in Miami. - Hyperallergic
The Drama At The Met This Opera Season
"Amid a labor battle, a pandemic that surged again and again, and a war, it was as if the real drama was in simply...
Pablo Picasso Created How-To-Draw Books For His Daughter
The artist "created them for Maya Ruiz-Picasso when she was aged between five and seven. On some pages, the little girl made impressive attempts...
Stranger Things Fans, Here’s How To Expand Your Kate Bush Fandom
"Legions of Stranger Things viewers have been recently indoctrinated into a secular belief system that has already transformed millions of lives. The text that...
