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As Anyone With Literary Chops Knows, This Is A Big Deal
Haruki Murakami has a new novel coming out, and the narrator is … what? A woman?! - LitHub
How LEGO Became The World’s Most Powerful Art Medium
“Lego’s appeal, represented by its zillions of plastic blocks and many movies and TV series, transcends nations. It is one of the planet’s top-selling...
What Is Truth?
That, basically, is what’s at stake in the low-grade shots fired (culturally speaking) across the internet about Michael. - Wired
How The Plan To Kill Coyote V. Acme Blew Up In David Zaslav’s Face
“The initial backlash to Cotoye v. Acme being shelved was clearly getting to WBD by November of 2023 when the studio began offering other production houses like Netflix,...
Music Biopics Don’t Have To Suck
No matter how much money it makes, Michael won’t be one of the good ones. - The Guardian (UK)
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Is A Bit Weird, Honestly
“Nothing will halt the American addiction to handing out hunks of gilt. For all the supposed independent spirit of the republic, its citizens seem...
Sure, You Might Be Sick Of Podcasts, But What About These Podcasts About The...
That is to say, “classical” music, and they’re not just for noobs - “There’s plenty for experts to enjoy, too, including detailed structural analyses...
The German Government Really Isn’t Happy About This Guy’s Popular Novella
A fiction author gets a phone call from the government: “Jügler was asked to explain what historical source material he had consulted for Mayfly...
How Do K-Pop Performers Maintain Their Dance Routines On Four Hours Of Sleep A...
Sure, they’re relatively young, but that doesn’t avoid the energy and kinetic demands of high-energy dance and music performances. The stars “must train to...
Sorry, Emmys, ‘Heated Rivalry’ Can’t Make You Popular Again
“Heated Rivalry became a bona fide great TV show, as worthy of Emmy consideration as shows about emergency medicine and international diplomacy and AI. But...
How Are U.S. Libraries Doing Amid Book Bans And Culture Wars?
It’s rough in these reading streets. “Librarians across the country are fighting to maintain students’ access to books and to keep their jobs amid...
Ireland’s Artist Basic Income May Not Account For Artists With Disabilities
“Ó Ceallacháin says many artists with disabilities feel as though they need to “]exist between ‘professional enough’ to be a ‘real’ artist for the...
The Next Director Of The Tate Has To Confront An Unwieldy ‘Beast’ Of An...
“Visitor numbers have indeed recovered after falling from their peak in 2019, but finances were hit hard during the pandemic. Those financial headwinds have...
A Cultural Critic Admits They Were Very Wrong About A 2010s Flashpoint
“There was something very intentional to Girls, something that spoke to me. I could’ve connected with it. Instead, I rejected it dramatically. I wasn’t the...
The Writers Guild Gives Its New Contract A Green Light
The contract, which is oddly long but helps shore up health care, earned the approval of more than 90 percent of the members who...
In Lawsuit Over Unlicensed Robert Indiana Art, Indiana’s Former Business Partner Is Awarded One...
“The wide-ranging battle over control of the Indiana legacy — which included accusations of forgery, unpaid royalties, elder abuse and copyright infringement — clouded...
It’s Been A Century Since The Term ‘Scientifiction’ Was Coined
That was for Amazing Stories, a magazine that published Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and other stories driven both by ideas and some possibly limited...
Every Single Fictional Pop Star Feels So Phony
Not to go all Holden Caulfield, but honesty, the fakery - it burns. Yes, including Mother Mary. - Variety
As Indie Bookstore Day Gives Stores A Boost, They Talk About Battling Amazon
“There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States. After 20 years of declining numbers, they’re...
You Might Have Associated Michael Tilson Thomas With San Francisco, But He Was Actually...
Mark Swed: “MTT made music matter by making hope matter. He was, moreover, one of us. He achieved greatness though an epic amplification of...
The Deep, Inescapable Unease Of The New Michael Jackson Biopic
And ‘unease’ is too kind a way to put it: “Everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of...
But Opera Will Die If We Can’t Wrest It Back From Big Tech
“There is something in the embodied expression of a trained singer, on stage, in a room with other human beings, that no synthetic content...
The Death Of Opera Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
"Opera has had to adapt to survive, and the truth is it has done so successfully.” - New York Sun
The Deep, Strange Comfort Of A Rewatch
“Familiar things require less from us; they deliver the emotional payoff we expect. But repetition is also a way of revisiting earlier versions of...
News Publishers Are Trying To Prevent AI Scraping, But They’re Killing A Valuable History...
Talk about the baby and the bathwater: "History needs stewards. The people of the Internet Archive do an outstanding job of preserving irreplaceable work...
