"Sometimes we can pretend we’re in a moment of stability, despite the ever-changing landscape around us; at other times, it’s all too apparent that we’re living in a time of profound shifts." (Guess what 2023 may bring.) - NiemanLab
But then did, and now recommends to everyone. "Literature should not be something we approach out of a sense of duty. But many lengthy, complex, and well-known books really are that good." - The Atlantic
"Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in East Sussex has been more closely associated with Gill than any other artist since it was founded in 1985. ... So close was its connection that for years it was widely known as 'the Eric Gill museum.'" No more. - The Observer (UK)
The Irish Embassy in Berlin had the idea for a dedicated cultural officer for Germany, and idea that "was so popular that similar roles have been created in London, New York, Los Angeles and Beijing – with Paris and Latin America to follow." - Irish Times
Truly, sort of. Since the author of Station Eleven said once in an interview that she was married, she couldn't convince Wikipedia she was now divorced - not without another published interview. - Slate
The director "has conceded that perhaps the Oscar-winning 1975 thriller was too effective at conjuring fear of the defamed creatures, admitting he is 'truly regretful' for any influence he has had on the world’s rapidly shrinking shark population." - The Observer (UK)
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop telling the world what it now knows for certain: Putin is dangerous, even deadly. - Washington Post
"The pope called the return a 'donation' to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to 'follow in the ecumenical path of truth.'" - Hyperallergic
The director of the new film Bardo, an Oscar-winner for Birdman and The Revenant, didn't want to leave Mexico, but, he says, "There wasn’t really a possibility for me to be a filmmaker there, which is what I most wanted to be." - Los Angeles Times
"Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to be of high value for antiquities, including Unesco world heritage sites." - The Observer (UK)
"Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox but don’t go to shul regularly? Or are they ultrareligious as in The Chosen?" - The New York Times
The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - and their brothers - to find, and found, a center of artistic life in London. - LitHub
He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, "his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a generous spirit." - The New York Times
