How A Fundamentalist Christian Polemic On Wifely Submissiveness Became (Ahem) Gospel Among Some Orthodox...
"The Surrendered Wife's popularity highlights how an insular religious group with carefully preserved boundaries can in fact be quite porous to outside influence —...
How CNN+ Fell Apart Just Weeks After It Was Launched
Or, to put it more clearly, how the new streaming service — into which the previous bosses had poured hundreds of millions — was...
Yes, CNN+ Collapsed, But CNN Has A Long Record Of Successful Innovation
"Some of those experiments, like Headline News (now HLN), paid off in a big way; others were here and gone in about a year....
Inquest Into Harassment At Paris Museums Ordered By Mayor
A report by the French daily Libération uncovered serious allegations of racial and sexual harassment, and even assault, at six of the 14 museums...
Italy’s “Monuments Men”-Style Task Force Has A New Deal With UNESCO
"The first heritage task force of its kind, the Blue Helmets includes officers from Italy's specialist police force for art crime, and ... art...
A New Orchestra Of Ukrainian Refugees Will Debut With An International Tour This Summer
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, a 75-member ensemble assembled with the support of the Metropolitan Opera and Polish National Opera, will visit nine European cities,...
Cultural Critic Margo Jefferson On TikTok, Fragility, And The Immaturity Of Chris Rock And...
"The incident crystallised several Jeffersonian themes: televised glamour, Black entertainers, and the question of how to behave in public." (In short, Smith and Rock...
Americans Are Abandoning Big Cities
In the past three years, the net number of moves out of Manhattan has increased tenfold. In every urban county within the metros of...
The UK Dance Company Working To Create Opportunities For Dancers Of Color
Bourne’s 2017 research found that across four major British ballet companies — the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Northern Ballet, the Royal Ballet and the English National...
Comedy Dying? I Think Not, Says Jon Stewart
“Comedy survives every moment.” And good thing it does, Stewart said, because “comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether. We’re the banana...
The Demons Inside The Internet
There are ways in which the internet really does seem to work like a possessing demon. We tend to think that the internet is...
How 20th Century Literary Analysis Came To Be
In the prewar period, university professors were apt to make vague aesthetic judgments about a book’s “beauty” or “soul” before lobbing in a few...
Writing About Nature: Science Or Poetry?
Natural history can certainly accommodate a profusion of perspectives – indeed, it will always benefit from greater diversity in how we look and think....
That Obnoxious Nissan Youth Orchestra Ad? This New Brunswick Orchestra Films A Perfect Response
The musicians’ response, recorded April 4, 2022, at the Imperial Theatre in St. John, New Brunswick, proves that age isn’t a barrier to playing...
Real Inflation: Concert Ticket Prices
Ticket prices increased 11% in 2021 relative to 2019, and 14% in North America, according to Live Nation Entertainment Inc., the world’s largest concert promoter. And...
Man Threatened To Bomb Merriam-Webster For Changing Definitions Of Gender
He sent anonymous comments and messages to Merriam-Webster, which publishes a widely used online dictionary, condemning the company for changing the definitions of words...
Gen Z: Not So In To Traditional Work
Many have taken to declaring how they don’t have dream jobs since they “don’t dream of labor.” This buzzy phrase, popularized on social media in the...
The Librarians Fighting Book Censorship
"Libraries, principals, school boards, superintendents are just fending off not only formal complaints that have been filed, which is what ALA was counting, but...
Need A Laugh? Head To The Library Of Congress
That's where you'll find the papers of Neil Simon: "7,700 manuscripts, letters and other material that Simon’s widow, Elaine Joyce, has donated to the...
For An Audiobook To Be Good, It Needs More Than A Good Narrator
While the good narrator (or narrators) is essential, truly good audiobooks also need the right atmosphere - and sometimes the right music. - NPR
Regret Can Be A Positive Feeling
Of course, "there’s a reason we put so much effort into denying regret: The feeling can be corrosive." But instead of regretting lost symphonies,...
Handwriting Has A Power That Computers Can Never Create
"When you’ve written something by hand, the only person who could have done it is you. It’s unmistakable you wrote this, touched it, laid...
As Developers Swoop Into South London, Can Planning Offices Reject Ugly Schemes?
Yikes, says Rowan Moore: "The proposed building is, not to put too fine a point on it, a brute. ... It is out...
The Australian Author Who Was This Close To Chucking It All For A Steady...
Aaron Blabey "had been working a series of increasingly dissatisfying day jobs — from acting to advertising — and although his children’s books were...
Los Angeles Is Paying Tribute To Six Revolutionary Composers Who Have Recently Died
Mark Swed: "The consequence of the current loss is enormous and hard to process because little of their music is part of the regular...
