If You Want More Olympics, There Are Years And Years Of Documentaries To Stream
“Some of them are startlingly cinematic, far beyond the workmanlike coverage we expect from seeing the same action on television.” - The New York...
There’s Only One Bed, Or, How Tropes Took Over Romance Discourse
“You can reduce anything down to tropes – grumpy v sunshine, pride v prejudice – but should we? What does it mean for the...
What Minnesota’s Indie Bookstores Are Doing During The ICE Surge
“There are two types of requests: books to help people understand what’s happening in the country and books to provide a momentary escape.” - Minnesota Public Radio
University Of North Texas Can’t Handle An Art Show With Anti-ICE Content
“Victor Quiñonez, the artist behind the exhibition, said he learned about the university’s decision when students messaged him on social media to say the...
Catalan Cinema, Moving Beyond The Art House
“The region’s new generation of filmmakers is no longer bound by the intimate, place-specific arthouse mode that often defined the late 2010s New Catalan...
Orhan Pamuk Finally Goes Netflix
But only on the Turkish novelist's own terms, which is one reason it’s taken a while. - The New York Times
The Ur-Conspiracy Theory, And How To Fight Them In General
“The fundamental problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering...
Since We’re Talking About Wuthering Heights, Let’s Talk Kate Bush
Not just Kate Bush - but other top songs inspired by literature, including Rosaliá, Kendrick Lamar, and, yes, The Rolling Stones. - The Guardian...
How Does The New York Times Decide Which TV Series To Recap?
Is it all about popularity? What about when a network drops every episode at once? Does a series need to have characters who might...
“Vinegar Valentines” — Send A Token Of Your Sentiment To The Ex You Despise
The name was given by present-day collectors and dealers; in their Victorian heyday, they were usually called mock or mocking valentines. They were very...
Does Making Art Require A “Writer’s Room”? Or Is It Something Else?
There’s no question that they’ve helped me write. And yet, if I look back over my career as a writer, the value I’ve derived...
Coffee Poets: The 16th-Century Muslim World’s Culture War Over The Brew Was Fought In...
In the medieval period, poets had used “coffee” as a symbol (or euphemism) for wine (forbidden in Islam), so praising coffee in a poem...
What Does It Mean To “Rewire” Your Brain?
Is it a helpful shorthand for describing the remarkable plasticity of our nervous system or has it become a misleading oversimplification that distorts our...
The Art Of Literary Subversion
The unique power of literary tradition, unlike philosophy or science, is that literature can respond to its predecessors without invalidating them, can contradict them...
The Successor To The Corporation For Public Broadcasting
The wind-down of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has given birth to a new independent, nonprofit organization that looks to fill some of the...
For The First Time, A Male Dancer Plays The Evil Fairy In New York...
In 2023, principal Taylor Stanley asked management if they’d permit a male-identifying dancer to play Carabosse; they said no. This year, they said no...
Australia’s First New City In 100 Years
The masterplan forms one of Australia's largest urban development projects and, once complete, will be the country's first major city built in over a...
America’s Richest Humanities Funder (And Its Implications)
Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them? - The Atlantic
A Dawning Recognition About AI And Music
Many worry that a kind of “canned” creativity will take over much of what originates from real people today, pushing a broad swath of...
How Minneapolis’s Theater Community Has Been Dealing With The ICE Occupation
It hasn’t been easy: some artists are scared to come to the theater, as are many audience members, and some shows have had to...
Where The Power Lies: Institutions Versus Networks
Institutions foster cooperation by rewarding good behaviour and punishing rule-breakers. Yet they themselves depend on cooperative members to function. We haven’t solved the cooperation...
Scientists Look Inside The Brain Of A Musician While He’s Playing
What happens in a performer’s brain while playing? Traditional brain-imaging tools like functional m.r.i. (f m.r.i.) require subjects to lie motionless in a scanner....
AI Companies Are Eating Higher Education
A.I. companies are increasingly exerting outsize influence over higher education and using these settings as training grounds to further their goal of creating artificial...
Is An Organized Ring Running Online Smear Campaigns In Hollywood?
“This clandestine smear machine seemingly connects some of the most talked-about scandals of recent years. … (Figures are) targeted by mysteriously operated websites that...
Playwright Mark Ravenhill (“Shopping And F***Ing”) Is Directing Strauss’s “Salome”. Too Obvious A Choice?
“You know, when I said I was going to do Salome a couple of people told me that this was the perfect opera for me because...
