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We Need More, And Better, Depictions Of Old People In Books
And not 40-year-olds, y’all. “Truly older characters remain very rare in literature, with around only two to three percent of protagonists aged eighty or...
Found In The Archives, A Novel By Horror Master George A. Romero Sees The...
Romero, of course, is known as a director - his most famous movie being Night of the Living Dead. But an archivist working on...
Two Iranian Directors Are Still Under House Arrest For A Gentle Comedy About An...
“The couple never meant to make political movies, Sanaeeha . ‘But in Iran, everything is political.’” (The issue here? A 70-year-old woman character doesn’t...
How Two Robbers Broke Into A London Gallery To Steal A Banksy
Though the work has been recovered, the entire exhibit is now off the walls at Grove Gallery. - BBC
Netflix’s Two-Part Season Drops Aren’t Working At All
Take Emily in Paris for the most recent, most egregious example: Even in Part 1, “the stories don’t have enough space. When you combine...
What Brain Science Says Many Of Us Are Missing Right Now
“When we learn something with other people—be it a college study group, a cooking class, or workplace learning—we encode the information more robustly in...
Dancer Michaela DePrince, A Trailblazer And Survivor Of War, Has Died At 29
"In the statement announcing her death, DePrince is described as ‘a beacon of hope for many, showing that no matter the obstacles, beauty and...
Salman Rushdie, Anne Carson, Rachel Kushner Make National Book Award Longlists
Some of the fiction nominees are also on the Booker Prize Longlist, but this list adds many others, including short story collections, as well....
An Illustrated Guide To Museum Etiquette For Dummies
Absolutely do not go on opening day, and always be prepared to leave your friends behind. - The New York Times
Could This Documentary Fix Our Relationship To The Internet?
“The question of how to use images responsibly isn’t new, but in our era of endless transmission and surveillance, even a project meant to...
Stop The Sexist Art Versus Craft Debate And Embrace A Third Way
Novelist Tracy Chevalier: The middle ground "is where people (women!) make things and are not patronised for it. ‘Crafter’ … is being superseded by...
We’ll Probably Never Get To See A Revealing New Nine-Hour Documentary About Prince
“This creature of pure sex and mischief and silky ambiguity, I now saw, was also dark, vindictive and sad. This artist who liberated so...
These Two Guys Aren’t Forty Yet And Have Gone EGOT As Of Sunday Night
They met as freshmen at Michigan. “They won an Oscar in 2017 for their original song 'City of Stars,' featured in the film La...
The Guys Who Design Those Really Intense Movie Theatre Popcorn Buckets
“The most difficult products are the ones that have a human face, because getting skin tones and the shadows and all that stuff can...
Maria Benitez, Who Popularized And Championed Flamenco In The States, Has Died At 82
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New...
What The Internet Archive Decision Means To All Of Us
The Internet Archive “is the only keeper of the internet’s first days, via the Wayback Machine. ... The archive is a huge source for...
As The British Empire Died, Tropical Modernism Came To Dominate Postcolonial Architecture
A new exhibition shows how local architects in Ghana and India took the British idea of tropical modernism and turned it into a symbol...
Michael Lerner, Founder Of The Influential, Controversial Magazine Tikkun, Has Died At 81
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was...
Amid A Wider Exodus From China, Ballet Dancer Du Hai Finds His Place In...
He tried the United States for a while, but then a spot opened in Japan - and, like many other Chinese intellectuals, he’s found...
Millennial Nostalgia Is Driving Pop Culture
Just as Boomer nostalgia influenced Gen-X for far longer than it perhaps should have, Gen-Zers (and the rest of us) will have years of...
Kate Winslet Opened The Door For Another Woman To Get A Big Credit On...
Winslet is playing Lee Miller, a photojournalist in WWII (and also the lover of Man Ray and a model for Vogue). She wanted another...
Disney Plans An Entertainment Merger In India To Strengthen Its Existence
“This gives Disney a stronger foothold in the challenging Indian market while supporting Reliance's expansion efforts. It also pits the new entertainment behemoth against...
Is There Any Merit To Musicians’ Copyright Claims Against The Former President For His...
“Music industry experts and copyright law attorneys say the cases, as well as Trump’s decision to continue playing certain songs despite artists’ requests that...
Artist Rebecca Horn, Whose Sculptures Saw The Body As A Portal To Other Dimensions,...
Horn created performance-oriented works in the 1960s that “envisioned new possibilities for women’s bodies, outfitting her participants with appendages that caused them to seem...
Little Free Library Plans To Get Banned Books Into The Hands Of The People
Check the map. “Florida and Texas have the most bans in place, with 2647 and 1469 in place respectively. Thankfully the number of Little...
