Agatha Christie Is The Latest Target Of Sensitivity Readers
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 have had passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins to strip...
The Weird Way Rare Books Are Catalogued
Learning how to catalogue properly is an essential part of bookselling, though exactly what constitutes “properly” will change depending on who you ask. - LitHub
What Do You Get When You Cross A Cookbook And A Comic Book? This.
"The last decade has seen a flurry of illustrated Korean cookbooks, one-panel satirical comics about South Asian chai, and graphic novels about Japanese-American culinary...
We Worked On “Phantom” For 35 Years
For a lot of us, we started out doing this young. And our lives have changed. It’s like watching a child grow up. I...
Former Director Of The Australian Ballet Now Has Two Companies To Oversee
Earlier this month David McAllister became interim Artistic Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in Wellington, as Patricia Barker departed following a troubled...
The Art Of Remaking (Reimagining?) A Classic Video Game
Several developers behind horror games described their task like choreography, requiring precise timing and deft choices to deliver the terrifying experiences that players crave. -...
Orlando Has A Lively Arts Scene. Disney Makes It Possible.
"From supporting educational efforts to assisting professional theaters to funding performance spaces, Walt Disney World has been an engine driving the growth of the...
Thinking About Machines Being Self-Aware
Theory of mind helps us communicate with and understand one another; it allows us to enjoy literature and movies, play games and make sense...
French Bad-Boy Author Michel Houellebecq Loses His Bid To Squelch The Porn Film He...
"A Dutch art collective can release an experimental erotic film showing the French novelist Michel Houellebecq having sex with young women in spite of...
Why Our Handwriting Is Getting Worse
“The bad handwriting specifically comes from I’m thinking too fast for my hand. I feel like being able to type as quickly as I’m...
Apple’s Classical Streaming App Has Arrived. So What’s Actually In It?
In August 2021, Apple purchased the classical-only streaming app Primephonic and immediately shuttered it, announcing that it would be reconfigured as an Apple product;...
British Theatre Audiences Are Behaving So Badly That Nearly Half Of Front-House Staff Want...
"Front-of-house staff facing violent assaults, theatregoers urinating in fire exits and mass brawls in auditoriums were among the incidents uncovered by the report from...
They’ve Discovered The Secret Ingredient In Old Masters’ Oil Paints: Protein!
"Trace quantities of protein residue have long been detected in classic oil paintings, though they were often ascribed to contamination. A new study …...
A Midwestern Network’s “Pro-Democracy” Alternative To Right-Wing Talk Radio
"With a presence in Milwaukee-Racine, Wausau-Stevens, Green Bay, and Appleton-Oshkosh and recent purchases in LaCrosse and Eau Claire markets, Civic Media's talk-formatted stations are...
Author Dubravka Ugrešić Is Dead At 73
A novelist and essayist who was for several years considered a likely Nobel candidate, "(she) found herself ostracized in the (newly-independent) country of Croatia...
Three-Quarters Of The Chorus Would Quit If English National Opera Leaves London: Survey
"Most chorus members … would be forced to leave their jobs if the company relocates outside London, because of ties that include children at...
Scotland To “Pause” Participation In Venice Biennale
"A spokesman said that in 'the present financial and planning environment' it was necessary to 'review the current model of delivery'. … Scottish involvement...
Global Museum Attendance: Which Museums Have Recovered (And Those That Haven’t)
That 141 million is double the number we recorded last year, and nearly three times that of 2020. But there is still some way...
What Elephants Are Teaching A Neuroscientist About Music
Elephants tend to keep a steadier beat than humans do, a study by the neuroscientist Aniruddh Patel later found, and Luk Kop’s sense of...
How Public Radio Could Fill Gaps In Local News
With more staff, local public radio stations could help fill the information gap created by the decline of local newspapers. They could afford to...
Something’s Terribly Awry With The “Creator” Economy
For the past few years, social-media platforms have used creator funds to lure content creators from their rivals with the promise of money to...
Sorry, The Problem Isn’t Misinformation, It’s “Knowingness”
In 21st-century culture, knowingness is rampant. You see it in the conspiracy theorist who dismisses contrary evidence as a ‘false flag’ and in the...
Ibrahim X. Kendi: Changing The Definition Of An Intellectual
The traditional construct of the intellectual has produced and reinforced bigoted ideas of group hierarchy—the most anti-intellectual constructs existing. But this framing is crumbling,...
When Spain’s Largest Newspaper Started A Book Club
The culture editors at El País had been considering starting a reading group for several years, but they only went ahead and launched the...
Met Museum Attendance Down By 1.7 Million In 2022
The Met was not alone among New York’s major institutions in experiencing a drop in attendance compared to 2019, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
