Booker Shortlist Nominee Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction
The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the...
Remaking Biography, Again
“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a...
Streamer MUBI Responds To Anger Over Investor With Ties To Israeli Defense Startup
Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of...
Dear Literary Writer, Sure, You Might Be The You Know What
Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub
Podcasts Drive Massive Books Sales For Conservative Authors
Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times
In April, Two Visitors Sat On, And Broke, A Priceless Chair In A Venice...
Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. -...
Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone
He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire....
As Live-Action Remakes Tank, Why Does Universal Think It Can Do Better?
"Universal, whose parent company acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016, was adamant that the new cater not only to young viewers but also to...
Nan Goldin Is Selling Prints To Support Trans People In A Very Scary America
Why just take on the Sacklers when you can take on the entire trans panic apparatus? "Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s...
National Portrait Museum Director That Trump Fired Decides To Leave Anyway
“This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. From the very beginning, my guiding principle has been to...
The Gentileschi That Survived The Beirut Explosion
Having passed only between three private collections over four centuries, the “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” exhibition marks the first time the painting...
Canada’s Currently Reigning Major Prairie Poet
As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in English...
In Defense Of The Dream Ballet, The Most Mocked Ingredient Of Stage Musicals
Going right back to the original, Agnes DeMille’s “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” in Oklahoma!, the power of the dream ballet lies in ‘being...
Sydney Theatre Company Scores Windfall Off Hit
Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions...
What 18 Years In The Met Opera Costume Shops Looks Like
After 18 years, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 64, a fast-talking native New Yorker, is retiring this month from the Met. She has garnered a reputation as a calm...
How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet
We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder....
Why World’s Fairs Are Still Worth Having, Even If They’re Not Cool Anymore
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair...
Are Bay Area Arts Organizations Sustainable? Some Data…
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With...
What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry
McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive —...
50 Years After It Was Canceled By CBS, “Gunsmoke” Is Still A Hit
“Since wrapping production 50 years ago, … the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon … has never gone away, finding fans on cable...
Should Big Media Companies Really Shape Our Culture Like This?
We need to pay careful attention to the uneven power dynamics between major media companies and then the musicians and music lovers who live...
Ocean Vuong Recounts The Death Of His Mother And Taking In His Young Brother
“It had been more than a decade since we lived together … a straight man with an affinity for collectible sneakers, basketball, sports cars,...
Why Literary Prizes Are A Bad Idea
As I got older and developed a more mature understanding of what literature is, the prizes started to seem increasingly bizarre and then sort...
London’s Most Admired Theatre Producer Says Broadway’s Business Model Is Broken
Sonia Friedman, the producer behind, among many others, last season’s game-changing revival of Merrily We Roll Along, the revival of Sondheim’s Company with a...
The Resurrection of Lapham’s Quarterly Begins
“The literary journal Lapham’s Quarterly is relaunching its website and podcast this summer under the editorial guidance of the writers Donovan Hohn and Francine Prose — a fortuitous...
