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The League Of Unfortunate Writers
When your book release happens the same week - or day - that most of your country locks down for a pandemic, well ......
The Emotional Return To Tanglewood
One young musician: "What you want to do is play with people—you don't want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud!...
Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The...
As anyone who's read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. - LitHub
Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19...
Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, "made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world." - The Guardian (UK)
Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus
The cinema owners' association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to...
Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots
For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...
The Friendliest Artist In America
Pope.L is finally having a moment, "but he does not take it for granted. 'The institution is always about itself,' he says of museums."...
The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust
Judy Batalion didn't mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish - which she speaks and reads....
It’s A Weird Performance Summer
Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. - The New York Times
Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?
Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, "Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern...
India’s Beautiful Single-Screen Cinemas Are Dying Out
The multiplex and the pandemic are a powerful one-two punch to the heart of "the talkies," as they're called. - NPR
What’s Holding Back The Vinyl Revival?
Record Store Day 2 was Saturday, but between production issues and the pandemic (and Brexit, for Britain), vinyl isn't doing as well as it...
Mat George, Co-Host Of Popular Podcast ‘She Rates Dogs,’ Killed In A Hit-And-Run At...
Mat George’s "humorous takes often drew widespread attention on Twitter. Last week, he shared a photo of his mother and Snoop Dogg." - The New York Times
It’s Not Easy For ‘Diverse’ Actors To Find Good Agents
"They basically told me they would only sign me if I permanently flat-ironed my hair. ... I was like, ‘I’m Black, I can’t get...
A Tasmanian Writer Wins Australia’s Most Prestigious Literary Prize
For her seventh novel, 74-year-old Amanda Lohrey won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth. - The Guardian (UK)
Foundations Expand Focus On Long Neglected Disabled Artists
Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but "the feedback from the first class ... was frank: Do even better...
In British Columbia, Lack Of Child Care Is Harming Women Directors
And not just directors. "Most daycares operate on a traditional workday schedule that isn't suitable for the families of shift worker in industries like film and...
The American Booksellers Association Canceled Itself
The ABA took its Twitter private after promoting a scientifically inaccurate anti-trans book to indie bookstores, apologizing, and then deleting the apology. - LitHub
How TikTok Is Rewriting Harry Potter And Fandom
Users claim they can "reality shift" to any fictional world; just, they say, "switch your consciousness to the right parallel universe." - Washington Post
Toyko’s Olympics Architecture Is Not About A Wow Factor
Why? "Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, one of Japan’s livelier practices, has objected that 'we independent artists are banned and totally deleted from the list of...
Perhaps In A Reaction To Quarantines And Lockdowns, New Movies Are Super Horny
Hot vax summer is real. (On the silver screen, anyway.) - Slate
The Descendants Of Those The Madisons Enslaved Will Now Have Input In The Madison...
One descendant: "Everything that are and were essentially derived from their relationship to their community, and that's from their intellectual achievements to their...
History, And Democracy, On The Brink Of Erasure
"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives...
Why Won’t The Standing Ovations End At Cannes?
At the film festival, it's not just Americans standing, clapping, clapping, clapping, and clapping some more. - The Atlantic
The Authors And Magazines Shaping Africa’s Literary Culture
"Across Africa, literary journals managed by young writers and artists are emerging with the aim of publishing both new and established voices, collaborating across...
