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St Thomas Church In Manhattan To Outsource Its Famous Choir School
“St. Thomas’s leaders warned earlier this year that the church was considering closing the choir school, one of only a few remaining boarding schools...
A Musical That’s Profitable Before It Even Opens? How?
Turns out star power helps a lot - and so does having a city own the theatre and fund its costs. - Los Angeles...
Granta’s Editor On Working While In Deep Grief
Sigrid Rausing: “When you’re working on a text there’s always a sense of loss when it’s done. But finishing the translation of a book...
The Beatles’ Final Song Was Finished Using AI
And now it’s up for a Grammy. - The Verge
What’s It Like To Write A New John Le Carre Novel?
Ask his son, Nick Harkaway. “I had actually decided I wouldn’t do it,” he says. Then his brother stepped in. - The New York...
If Britain Wants Cool New Social Housing, It Should Look To The Continent
“In many of these places, public bodies and architects see their job as doing more than meeting numbers of homes completed.” - The Observer...
On Being A Woman Of A Certain Age In The Marvel, And Hollywood, Universe
Kathryn Hahn on Agatha All Along: “It does feel like a really radical thing that we've been able to pull off. Though, because my...
What’s Up With Celebs Glamorizing Smoking?
If you remember the 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking, you’d be forgiven for anticipating this is a Big Tobacco thing. “Nine out of...
The Trauma Of Being A Librarian On The Front Lines In The United States
Sure, there are the rancorous meetings where people accuse you of peddling porn, and the death threats. But there are also overdoses, physical attacks,...
The New York Times Digital Staff Go On Strike The Day Before The US...
"The Tech Guild is asking Times readers ‘to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections...
This Artist Lost 1000 Paintings In A House Fire
The nightmare: “The blaze made quick work of the art stored in Ayres’s flat: paintbrushes burned like dry straw, oil paintings melted to the...
Cal Shakes Veterans Mourn, And Remember
"In my long career all over the country, I have never experienced a more comprehensively intelligent, generous and progressive audience. Where did that audience...
Breaking Cultural Ground With An Iranian American Play
Avaaz is "not just a personal story, it’s also a Persian New Year celebration taking center stage at the Denver Center Theater Company this month. The...
Dueling Literary Letters Make Opposing Pledges About Israeli Cultural Institutions
One letter, signed by 2700 authors and entertainers, calls for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that are “complicit in violating Palestinian rights,” while...
Dear Writers, Please Remember To Take Care Of Your Readers
In student writing, teachers and professors are paid to do the reading. But books? That’s a whole different exchange. - LitHub
It Turns Out Free Pizza Was A Great Bribe For Reading
Or at least, that’s how Millennials remember the Book It! program, which is - shockingly - still going strong, 40 years in, with personal...
How Did ‘Yellowstone’ Capture So Big A Part Of US Culture?
“The neo-Western wrapped contemporary ideas of rugged individualism inside the soapy drama of a land-hoarding family’s succession planning." - The New York Times
Actor Anne-Marie Duff Says Live Theatre Is Thrilling
Sure, she’s appeared in movies and series, but Duff loves the stage. “It’s just like you and me. ... As soon as you say...
The New Color Kindle May Be Having A Weird Glitch
Amazon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, getting hammered on its own site for an occasional yellow band at the bottom of the Kindle Colorsoft screen. -...
The Psychosocial Dread That Underpins Japanese Horror Films
For instance, after the emperor died and the tech bubble popped in Japan, “filmmakers leaned into the anxieties of late-twentieth-century life–including, prominently and presciently,...
Rousseau Got His Ideas On Equality From A Woman
“It is surprising that few scholars have stopped to wonder whether Rousseau’s fledging as a philosophe ... had anything to do with the six years he...
Who Owns Wheel Of Fortune?
We don’t mean that in a mystical sense, but in the sense that Sony and CBS are in the midst of a legal fight...
The Life Of A Writer Is Often Quite Choppy, Says Author Deborah Levy
"Levy has written nine novels, two of which have been shortlisted for the Booker prize, and is clearly of the view that fiction is...
A Record Number Of Books Censored And Banned In Schools This Year
That’s a rise of 200 percent over 2023, which was already a huge year for organizations that rub their hands in glee as they...
An Autistic Girl Turned Down By Ballet Schools Inspires A Whole New Approach
A Scottish ballet teacher has created classes that meet the needs of autistic kids in ballet. The teacher says the response has been overwhelming:...
