No Regrets – Putting Off That Creative Career
We spoke to a total of 33 people in the UK, all of whom had felt “called” to music in early life but then...
A Sudden Shift In Culture Of Twitter Users
As a lot of the current people leave and a lot of new people who are there because of what they think Elon is...
Messy As It Is, A Case For Translation
One ongoing effort to pin down the instable entity that is translation involves finding metaphors or analogies for it. This epistemological parlor game has...
Hotly Contested: The Purpose Of Studying History?
Should we study the distant past to explore its strangeness—and jolt ourselves out of easy assumptions that the world we know is the only...
The 21st-Century Hula Renaissance
"Forget Hollywood images of lithe women in coconut bras and grass skirts. ... Real hula is primal, archetypal, esoteric and ever- evolving. And it's...
HBO Grew Out Of Journalistic Impulse (Then Turned On It)
To pull in viewers, HBO’s early executives dreamed up a network that ended up reflecting contemporary culture — its policing and crime, politics and...
“The Woman King” Is A Massive Hit At Benin’s Only Movie Theater
The film, headlined by Viola Davis, about the female warriors of the old kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin), has been running at the...
How Gael Greene Invented The Modern Restaurant Critic
She was famous for a kind of glamorous hauteur, which the bedraggled dining critics of today, with their furtive TikTok feeds and constantly buzzing...
Arguments About Backstage Racism Are Getting Out-Of-Hand: John McWhorter
"But here and now: non-Black people of color mad that they weren't consulted about Black American slavery? ... Calling it an affront to mental...
Why Aesthetics Trump Moral Value
It is a well-worn cliché that the practical person scorns aesthetic value. But there’s reason to think that it is the only way in which we...
It’s Word-Of-The-Year Season Again, And The First Winner Is Perfect For 2022
That word, chosen by Collins English Dictionary in the UK is "permacrisis." Among the other top choices are "vibe shift," "Partygate," "quiet quitting," and...
The Latino Vanguard Transforming Los Angeles Culture
This is a survey of the rising writers, actors, directors, architects, thinkers, musicians and other artists who are shaping the culture you are living...
Ian Jack, Journalist, Essayist, And Ex-Editor Of Granta, Dead At 77
He wrote for the Glasgow Herald, the Sunday Times of London, "the Observer and Vanity Fair before joining the team that created the Independent...
Nico Muhly’s New, Most Unusual Setting Of Christ’s Passion
"In The Street, a new evening-length cycle for harp, narrator, and singer(s), composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman treat the 14 stations with...
The Resurrection Of Cinecittà, Rome’s Legendary Film Studio
"Over the past few years, Cinecittà has grown enormously. The increase in demand for new series and movies — driven by global streamers —...
A John Steinbeck Essay About American Democracy Is Published In English For The First...
"The piece, titled 'How About McCarthyism?' was originally published in 1954 in French in Le Figaro littéraire, although Steinbeck wrote it in English. The...
What Exactly Is In Prop 28, California’s Arts Education Ballot Measure?
"Right now, about 40% of the state's general fund goes towards education. This measure will allocate an extra 1% from the general fund toward...
Legendary Restaurant Critic Gael Greene, 88
"(She was) an influential New York magazine food writer who shook up restaurant reviews with a cutting wit, vibrant passions and descriptions of dining...
Two Of The World’s Great Museums Are Fighting Over Whether “Girl With A Flute”...
The National Gallery of Art in DC, which owns the painting and is lending it out for this year's Vermeer blockbuster, says that its...
An AI Brain-Powered Opera
There were three singers — “ambassadors” to the sun, space and life — as well as a percussionist, a violinist and a flute player....
The Collected Jerry Saltz
Although Saltz blasts the usual targets — speculative collectors, unscrupulous auction houses, gender bias at museums — the tenor is overwhelmingly positive. This might...
Julie Powell (Of Julie/Julia Fame) Dies At 49
Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries. The...
Shakespeare: A Fascinating Debate About National Culture In New Zealand
Behind the row lay an unanswered question: how does a post-settler, multicultural society create a national identity? This latest case put a spotlight on...
How Our Brains Perceive Color
Our sex can play a role in how we perceive color, as well as our age and even the color of our irises. Our...
Random House Says It Will Publish Amy Coney Barrett’s Book Despite Campaign To Block...
By Monday afternoon, the letter had attracted more than 625 signatures from authors, translators and agents. The signatories included more than 75 who identified...
