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Salman Rushdie Has Lost Sight In One Eye, Use Of One Hand After Attack
His agent: "He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he...
Dealing With Memories While Writing Memoir
Memoirist Mary Karr (The Liars Club, Cherry, Lit) says, "Memory is a pinball in a machine—it messily ricochets around between image, idea, fragments of...
Booker Prize Winner Asks People Not To Pirate His Book
Shehan Karunatilaka, who won for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, wrote on Instagram and Facebook, "The book took seven years to...
Actor Josephine Melville, 61, Dies Backstage After Performing A Play
Melville had just performed at the Nottingham Playhouse in the play Nine Night. She also played a recurring character on the British soap EastEnders...
How George Clooney And Julia Roberts Became Our Era’s Tracy And Hepburn
They've never been romantically linked, but they're good buddies - and it's obvious. "The genuine tenderness between them, undergirding even their tensest interactions, is...
Turning An Enslaved Man’s Narrative Into An Opera
In 2017, the Spoleto Festival asked musician Rhiannon Giddens if she wanted to write an opera about Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said. She'd never...
Are The Mysteries Of Spotify’s Payment System Ever Going To Get Solved?
And will it ever, ever be fair to musicians? In August, Congress member Rashida Tlaib's office calculated that "it would take more than 800,000...
Julie Kent Leaves The Washington Ballet For Houston
Kent, an international ballet star, led the Washington Ballet for six years. In her statement about leaving for the Houston Ballet, she said, "It...
Illuminated Manuscripts In Greece Tell A New Story About Ottoman Rule
The manuscripts tell a newly rediscovered story of Mount Athos: "The new rulers took the community under their wing, preserved its autonomy and protected...
How The Geffen Sounds, From Every Seat In The House
The hall "seems to have achieved a rare distinction in its engineering for sound: consistency. No seat in the hall ... is appreciably better...
Dungeons And Dragons, But Make It Mental Health
Because so many people are used to using tabletop role-playing games, some therapists have decided to adapt the tools of the games. - Wired
Singer Carly Simon’s Sisters, Both Musicians, Died This Week
Lucy Simon, 82, was a Tony-nominated Broadway composer; Joanna Simon, 85, was a mezzo-soprano who (according to The New York Times) "stood out for...
More Money Means More Museums
Check out a certain state in particular: "Collectors across the country are choosing to start their own museums, and perhaps nowhere has this trend...
On Anniversary Of On-Set Shooting, Prosecutor Warns Of Potential Indictment
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one...
The Ursula Le Guin Fiction Prize Names Its First Winner
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust, won the prize, named for the legendary Portland author and activist - but "Le Guin...
Why We Still Need Physical Archives
For one thing, it's nearly impossible to digitize everything in an archive, or to connect it in context. "Physical documents can help us understand...
British Arts Venues Feel Desperate In The Deepening Cost Of Living Crisis
"Those institutions which made it – sometimes barely – through the pandemic are now contending with huge leaps in fuel prices, increased staffing costs,...
New Yorker Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl Has Died At 80
Schjeldahl was a poet, art lover and sometime artist before he became an art critic. The Fourth of July parties he and wife Brooke...
The Joys Of Hunting For Fossils In DC
No, not the human kind. "The District was, all jokes aside, a lush swamp back in the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, muck-dwelling mollusks and megalodons...
Earning Disparities Persist For ‘Non-Professional’ Artists
A new study shows that artists who are women and/or BIPOC earn about 23 percent less than white men, even in the non-professional creative...
Goodnight Moon At 75
Jacqueline Woodson: "The ‘goodnight nobody’ always caught me by surprise and made me think ... I thought in including that ‘Goodnight nobody’ spread, Hurd...
Paul Newman, In His Own Words
Why a new biography now, 14 years after the star actor died? "The book is assembled from five years’ worth of interviews that the...
A Timeline Of When Artist Ben Sakoguchi Was Excluded From The California Biennial
It's not a simple tale. The Orange County Museum of Art asked him what to say to viewers who were made uncomfortable. He responded,...
How Director Park Chan-Wook Channels Hitchcock
"The mystery genre, Park’s chosen conduit this time around, scratches an existential itch in the human condition, he thinks. Since our lives overflow with...
Artistic Communes Aren’t A Gen-Z Invention
Just ask the writers of the 18th century like Coleridge and Shelley (perhaps not Mary Shelley, whose experience was, well, different). - The Guardian...
