Israel May Be Considering Banning Artist Rama Duwaji, First Lady Of New York
“The ministry reportedly took issue with Duwaji’s animation Eyes on Jenin (2025), a work that linked police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters to Israel’s genocide...
A New Way To Consume What’s Euphemistically Known As ‘Kissing’ Books
"Quinn finds the guys (mostly guys) in television shows whose characters people fantasize about. It pays those guys to read original scripts that have...
The Artist Who Dropped Out Of Art School Three Credits Shy In Order To...
“Music wasn't something that was going to be a long-term thing. ‘I remember distinctly begging my mom for X amount of dollars to buy...
A Tennessee Library Director Refuses To Move LGBTQ Books, Citing The First Amendment
"The Rutherford County Library Board voted ... to relocate more than 190 books, many involving LGBTQ+ themes, from children’s and teen sections to adult...
If You’ve Based Your Career On Confessional Books, Don’t You Expect Audience Reaction To...
In which Slate unpacks the internet’s reaction to Lindy West’s new book, and Lindy's - and her partners’ - reactions to the reactions. “I’m...
A Jury Says Elon Musk Drove Down Twitter’s Price And Defrauded Investors With Misleading...
One of those statements was Musk “tweeting a poop emoji when then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal commented there was no way for external parties to...
California’s Film And TV Tax Credit Is Working, But The State Says The Business...
Will this argument play? "Whether it is computer chips, the energy sector or pharmaceuticals, this is something that is standard in the United States....
The HarperCollins Union Has Finally Ratified Its New Contract
Not like it’s making any worker rich (check the numbers), but at least they didn’t have to strike this time. “HarperCollins employees have had...
Game Developers Use AI For A Lot Of Things, But Not Creating Games
This feels like good news for creators: “‘I feel like the human mind is so beautiful,’ The Melty Way developer Gabriel Paquette told me. ‘Why not...
The Navy Veteran Who Titles His Paintings After Octavia Butler And Dostoyevsky
“'You do four years in the Navy, and you see a lot of blue water,’ said Price, standing in his studio in the...
Musicians On The Greatness And Legacy Of Alice Coltrane
In just one example, "as the American composer Adrian Younge says: ‘Alice Coltrane took the harp, an instrument of angels and orchestras, and made...
What’s The Impact Of The US Dismantling Storied, Award-Winning Black Studies Departments?s
“Early investment in race and gender studies ‘favored programs over departments,’ which has always made financing a tenuous proposition. And at the end of...
An Early Target Of Saturday Night Live In The UK?
Shakespeare. Or rather, Hamnet’s Shakespeare, which is not quite the same thing. - Variety
One Week On, Looking At The Impacts Of This Year’s Oscars
"Put the Warners Bros. sale alongside the Oscars’ imminent move to YouTube, and the whole night carried with it a bittersweet fin de siècle...
Theatre Has Kept On Creating And Recreating Antigone, Over 2500 Years
Why? “Antigone isn’t wrestling with a prophecy. In her story, fate is what one powerless girl makes it, and right action is possible, as long as...
The Oscars’ Red Carpet Gets Dumped As Soon As The Ceremony Ends
Turns out dumpster diving in Los Angeles the day after the Oscars can be pretty, well, interesting. - The Guardian (UK)
We Miss You, Mass Market Paperbacks, But We Live In Reality
Now: Which is better for authors and (or) for readers, hardcover books or trade paperbacks? - LitHub
National Park Service Pulls Films About Mill Workers From Historic Site In Massachusetts
The suspicion is that’s this is the result of bowing down to the “only positive history” guideline from the federal government, but the people...
Why ABC Decided To Play With Fire
“ABC knew that Paul had been charged in a domestic violence incident that led to the injury of her child and somehow thought...
What It Takes To Bring A Long-Neglected 1930s Cinema Back To Life
“The Holly’s revival offers a case study in how a historic landmark can complement an existing arts ecosystem — strengthening downtown vitality while reconnecting...
AJ Chronicles: What Habermas Feared for our Public Sphere
This week we collected 118 stories. It's worth noting, I think, that attempts to address the current collapse of the non-profit culture sector are focused on changing market forces. But this is a larger, more systemic set of issues that has corroded all of civic life -- from culture to
Is This New Movie About Seattle Accurate About The Wealth Gap In The Emerald...
The Seattle Times analyses Tow, claiming that “it’s the right story at the right time, speaking to a Seattle that’s grown increasingly unaffordable for...
The Art Detective Who Follows Clues To Stolen Paintings In A Shadowy, Underground Ecosystem
“One afternoon, Brand says he opened his door and found a blue IKEA bag on his doorstep. Inside, he says, was a pillow soaked in blood....
Nicholas Brendon, Who Played Scooby Gang Member Xander On Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Has...
Brendon said that “thousands of people had told him that helped them in hard times. ‘It just got them through, which means that...
The Oscar-Nominated Movie That Was Supposed To Feel Like A Hug
“I didn’t want my kids in 10 or 15 years to look at my work and say, ‘Oh, Papa was so cynical.’ I wanted...
