Dance Magazine’s 25 Dancers To Watch In 2023
These trailblazers and breakout stars are forging their own paths through our field. - Dance Magazine
Inside Disney’s Leadership Coup
That Mr. Iger was unhappy with Mr. Chapek is well established. Less well known is the depth of his antipathy and the lengths he...
In Latest Version Of France’s Most Important Literary Prize, Inmates Do The Judging
The inmates were part of the very first edition of a new, government-sponsored literary prize bestowed by prisoners. The award, called the Goncourt des...
E.J. Dionne: It’s Time To Make Book-Banning Politically Unpopular
Opponents of censorship heartily agree that parents should have an important say in how schools work and how public libraries serve our children. What...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Links To Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram
This is fine: "The platform said the move would affect content from numerous social media websites, including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Mastodon, Truth...
Germany Has Recovered Some Of A Huge 2019 Heist From A Dresden Museum
"German authorities said Saturday that they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum in a spectacular break-in more...
Beryl Grey, Legendary English Ballerina, 95
Grey did everything from dancing with the Bolshoi to directing the English National Ballet, and quite a bit in between. As a young dancer,...
The World Is Drowning In Old Books
"Books are precious to their owners. Their worth, emotional and monetary, is comparably less to anyone else." - Washington Post
Yellowstone Is A Mouthpiece For Big Meat
And it's an issue, no matter how much you like the show. "To state the obvious, most of the world’s cattle are elsewhere, and...
Can Anyone Ethically Encourage Graduate Studies In The Humanities?
"As bad as I thought the situation was, it’s worse—and it’s likely to worsen as high school students acquire more transferrable credits in early-college/dual-degree...
The Music, And The Trees, Of Norway
"Classical performance tradition is immediately undermined when the performer enters wearing a sleeveless pink top, red trousers, and a brown messenger bag ... and...
The UK’s Best Building Projects Of 2022
A dining hall? Yes, sure. A temporary pavilion? Indeed. The UK has range. - The Observer (UK)
How This Actress Quietly Became A Millennial Icon
Aubrey Plaza didn't anchor a blockbuster franchise like Jennifer Lawrence or Kristin Stewart, but she "has had a knack for choosing roles that seem...
Storytelling Changes, But Stories Remain
"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...
The Classic Books This Reviewer Never Meant To Read
But then did, and now recommends to everyone. "Literature should not be something we approach out of a sense of duty. But many lengthy,...
What Will The Museum Associated With Eric Gill Do Now His Horrific Abuse Is...
"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...
Read Like The Staff Of The Paris Review
Or, what books "temporarily ruined" their lives in 2022. - Paris Review
Ireland’s Cultural Representation In Europe Has Increased Rapidly Since Brexit
The Irish Embassy in Berlin had the idea for a dedicated cultural officer for Germany, and idea that "was so popular that similar roles...
Publishers Hope People Will Read The January 6 Report Cover To Cover
Or at least that they'll buy the proceedings - cleaned up from PDF form, with introductions by politicians or allies - as a book....
This Emily St John Mandel Interview Is A Testament To The Power Of The...
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...
Steven Spielberg Is Sorry That Jaws Has Led To So Many Shark Deaths
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...
Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop...
The Vatican Will Return Its Parthenon Fragments To Greece
"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...
When Alexander Inarritu Went Hollywood
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...
Russia Is Looting Ukraine Museums’ Scythian Gold
"Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to...
