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Robert Coover, Postmodernist Author Of Great Invention, Dead At 92
Michiko Kakutani called him “probably the funniest and most malicious” of all the postmodernist novelists. - The New York Times
Demon Copperhead Author Barbara Kingsolver Knows A Thing Or Two About Anti-Hillbilly Bigotry
And she knows the real Appalachia - one, she says, a certain vice-presidential candidate doesn’t. - The Guardian (UK)
The Lines Among WordPress’s Commercial, Nonprofit, And Founder’s Interests Are Blurring
Matt Mullenweg “has muddied the boundaries between three essential entities that lead a sprawling ecosystem powering almost half of the web. To Mullenweg, that’s...
How The Sydney Metro Could Inspire An Improvement In Australian Architecture
“People are looking for serious change in the approach to the environment around us, and yes, there is an appetite to see design charting...
No One In The United States Will Distribute One Of The Year’s Most Powerful...
“The subject matter is politically fraught, but once upon a time, American film distributors and exhibitors embraced controversy — especially when it came to...
Spain Is Trying To Decide What To Do With The Remains Of Conquistador Hernan...
“The story began when Spanish pharmacist Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer met historian Alberto María Carreño in Mexico in 1946, who told him a secret: the body...
How Artist Wendy Red Star Learned Of Her MacArthur Fellowship
“They’re like, ‘Do you have a place where you can have a confidential conversation?’ So the next day I had a meeting, I was...
Steve McQueen’s Blitz Is About Ordinary People In Extraordinarily Difficult Circumstances
“It’s grimy and chaotic: people pick over dead bodies for valuables, fire crews wrestle with out-of-control hoses, while others find sexual freedom in the...
A Master Storyteller Approaches Her Death The Same Way She’s Approached Her Fiction
Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with...
Finding Van Gogh In Arles
“Van Gogh would regularly walk for an hour or more, through the agricultural land that supplied the Saturday market to the Romanesque abbey Montmajour, not...
The Glass Timpani
On stage in DC: Two timpanists, seventeen timpani: “Rhythmic and melodic material is split between the two soloists — each surrounded by drums and...
The Arts Were An Economic Engine In North Carolina
Then Hurricane Helene hit - and hit hard. In Asheville’s long-gestated River Arts District, the president of the District’s art group describes “the current...
Heartstopper’s New Director Sure Wishes The Series Had Been Around When He Was A...
Andy Newbery, season three’s helmer: “Hopefully, shows like this will make it easier for the next generation coming through... to hopefully accept themselves a...
Writer, Director, And Actor Alice Lowe Calls For Indie Film To Be A Lot...
In its funding, anyway. “There are so many people who just need a first chance to make a smaller-budget film,” she says, pointing out that...
Working, Teaching, Writing, And Living In Three Languages
“My husband tells me, ‘You are a nicer person in Hindi than you are in English.’ I believe him. For everything that English has...
James Magee, Mysterious Artist, Has Died At 79
Magee was “an enigmatic and idiosyncratic artist and poet who spent four decades building a starkly beautiful monument of stone and steel in the...
Asheville’s Biggest Tourist Attraction Might Not Be Fully In Ruins, But The Town Around...
Somehow, billionaire mansions survive - the Biltmore House, hotels, and even gardens were little damaged by Hurricane Helene - but Biltmore Village? Yikes. -...
Ukrainian Ballet Dancers, Going On Despite Years Of War
“Keeping the National Ballet dancing, whether at home or abroad, is a matter of existential importance for Ukraine, Sukhorukov and his colleagues say. ‘Ballet...
We’re In A Golden Age Of Tejano Documentaries
Among others, “you can find the contemplative radicals of Hummingbirds trolling the streets of Laredo over on PBS; the determined detectives of The Chicano Squad solving...
This May Be A Long-Lost Canadian Master’s Painting
At least, that’s what the authenticators say about a painting bought for £2,000. “The artwork had been exhibited in Canada five times between 1912...
Megalopolis Is A Different Kind Of Flop
Sure, Francis Ford Coppola's 40-years-in-the-making creation is a megaflop at the box office - but it’s an auteurist megaflop. - The New York Times
The Polari Prize Releases Its Shortlist
“The chosen titles 'remind us of the power of queer storytelling at a time when some would see our books and stories banned,’ said...
The Plan To Save Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Is A Disaster
“The new owners have sold some one-of-a-kind furnishings that Wright designed for the building. And the building itself is up sale, listed on a...
Australia’s Small But Valiant Presses Are Being Swallowed By Larger, Even Huge, Corporations
“This is what happens when the big fish eat all the little fish: grim times for employees, writers and, ultimately, readers. Should those of...
How One Gauguin Painting Went From Real To Lost To Fake
“How did a painting that was once coveted by museum directors and collectors alike simply disappear? And how can a work of art suddenly...
