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The Rise Of The Literary Thrill-Seeking Complex
"New narrative booms. Its dissociative forms and themes — the anxiety/bliss of romance/sex, psychic roleplay, identity-in-ideology, dream states, trauma, more sex — now serve...
What To Do On Broadway When Your Leads And Nearly A Third Of The...
As Music Man showed, you shut down for days; keep paying everyone; and hire great swings. "We had swings covering seven roles and trying...
What Could Possibly Account For The Popularity Of The Mediocre Movie Encanto And Its...
The Disney movie and its soundtrack, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, sit at the center of several global changes in media and music power. - The...
No One Cares About The Oscars, Except When They Very Much Do
The Oscars maintain a "strange aura ... as a gold standard of cinematic achievement: For several months a year, people fret and discuss and...
Is ‘Wonder Boys’ The Very Best On-Screen Depiction Of An Author?
Yes, partly because the film absolutely bombed at the box office. "Wonder Boys succeeds. It succeeds because it failed, and because at heart it’s about...
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Rogan
"Spotify has a responsibility for what it’s amplifying. Does that mean that it has the only responsibility? Does that let the producer, the content...
When We Compare Schools To Factories, We’re Ignoring History
Sure, "we like stories about education that feel true" - but this one simply isn't. And keep in mind that "those who want us to forget...
The Week When Not Only Spotify But A New NFT ‘Scam’ Infuriated Musicians
"For a few days this week, a new firm called HitPiece sold nonfungible tokens, or NFTs — pieces of code asserting ownership over a digital object...
Jason Epstein’s Influence On American Publishing Was Massive, And Continued For Decades
Epstein was the editor of Philip Roth, Jane Jacobs, and W.H. Auden; one of the founders of The New York Review of Books; and...
The Latest Book Cover Trend Is A Bit Distressing
Or at least, distressed: Young women, well-dressed, sad ... and entirely faceless. - The Guardian (UK)
The Treasury Department Says The Art Market Is Vulnerable To Money Laundering, But Doesn’t...
Doesn't need regulation ... for now, anyway. "It’s often the case that there are larger underlying issues at play, like the abuse of shell...
The Damage, And The Lie, Of The Myth Of Solitary Genius
The erasure of collaborators - and the sometimes terrible behavior to others - is just the tip of the iceberg. See: A new novel...
Why Is Britain Having Such A Hard Time Repatriating The Parthenon Marbles?
"The situation circles, perhaps conveniently. It’s not up to the government, it’s up to the trustees. And yet it’s not up to the trustees,...
NFTs Just Got Worse
Didn't seem possible, but hey, celebrities are magic. - The Atlantic
The Winter Show Is Back On, For Now, In The Spring
The art fair was online only in 2021, and then it was going to be in-person in the, er, winter, and now it's planned...
Critics Of The Tennessee School District’s ‘Maus’ Vote Are Missing Something
"The elimination of Maus from a Tennessee county language arts curriculum does not live up to its more hysterical billing. It is not a ban, and...
Dune Leads Nominations At The BAFTAs
What? Yes, the science fiction epic earned 11 nominations - including for Best Picture. - BBC
North Korea Arrests Dance Instructor And Students For ‘Capitalist’ Dance Moves
Teenager dance students and their teacher will likely be sentenced to hard labor, and their parents may be expelled from the ruling party after...
Native Tribes Push To Gain Some Hollywood Influence With Tax Credits And Production Companies
The Cherokee Nation, for instance, is offering cash rebates. "The ability to take control of that storytelling directly is important, so we want opportunities...
Todd Gitlin Defined The Way Many People Saw The Sixties
Later, Gitlin critiqued identity politics, annoying some former colleagues in Students for a Democratic Society and other causes. In 2021, he pulled together "a...
Lou Stovall Took Screenprinting From Grocery Stores To Gallery Walls
"In those days, silkscreen was mostly used for commercial posters. Bold, flat, attention-getting signs — STOP, or SALE. Curator Danielle O'Steen says 'he felt...
The Perfect Wordle Guessing Strategy Teaches Us Quite A Lot About English
"In Wordle, your own language skills, memory, and the Wordle dictionary mean that no human (with the possible exception of an eccentric memory champ) could...
Lion Dancers In Houston Have 90 Performances During The Days Around Lunar New Year
Here's how they practice, and how they deal with being away from their families during one of the biggest holidays of the year. -...
The Horrors Of This Year’s Sundance Were All Virtual
"Horror cinema has long been in the business of mining terror from the everyday, of linking surface scares to primal subtexts ... there’s...
The Man Who Changed The Way We See Spanish Art
Under Franco, the study of Spanish art languished - but Jonathan Brown, art historian, curator, professor, and mentor, brought luminous painters like Velázquez to...
