Our Collective Narcissism Is Terrifying, Harmful – And Creepily Common
Sound familiar? "Collective narcissists tend to respond to the perceived threats of other groups in outsize, often aggressive ways. ... Meanwhile, group narcissists glorify...
An Indigenous Filmmaker From Canada Creates Art From Childhood Trauma
The chair for the Canada Council for the Arts says, "What you’re seeing is maybe an industry that is so ravenous for stories that...
Making A Big Indie Movie And Then a PR Turnaround
How do you go from being mocked for playing the love interest of a vampire to being the first American actress to win a...
What To Do When You’re A Violin Soloist, And A String Snaps
For one thing, give the conductor a look. For another thing, hope the concertmaster is alert. Watch Thursday's cascading violin exchanges and fixes on...
Filipino Youth Are Using Music To Pressure The Country’s Regime
One singer: "We have the power to uplift someone. ... It’s something I hope fellow musicians realize, appreciate and that they don’t forget, even...
Protests Over Chappelle’s Transphobia May Not Harm Netflix’s Bottom Line
But that's not the point: "Pushing media companies to live up to their ideals about inclusion and equality is a long game, requiring sustained...
There’s A New Film Musical About A Musical About The Process of Writing A...
Wait, what? Yes. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it involves Lin-Manuel Miranda. - The New York Times
A Row Over A Potentially Antisemitic Name At The Royal Court Theatre
Playwright Al Smith says he didn't mean one of his characters - a zillionaire Silicon Valley bro meant to represent Elon Musk - named...
The Opera World Pays Tribute To RBG
And not just her love for opera, but her love for operatic style. "She did so much for our art form by speaking about...
Organizing Your Books Can Feel Like Controlling Your Life
Of course, that might mean you need a new house. - The Guardian (UK)
Storytelling Goes Academic, Or Maybe Academia Gets Cool, With Podcasts
Daniel Heath Justice's "podcast, which will be peer-reviewed before its release—a first in North America—is part of a bold new take on research that...
How Drug Trafficking Culture Came To Rule Style, Social Media, And Music
"The lives of buchonas, their flamboyant styles and their taste for plastic surgery are regularly chronicled in Spanish-language media outlets. Vloggers do roundups devoted to top buchonas. And...
The Shortlisters For Canada’s Richest Literary Prize Talk About Their Writing Habits
The authors nominated for the Giller who have kids say they write whenever they can. Another: "COVID has helped me let go of a...
A Naked Man Got Trapped In A Theatre’s Bathroom Walls
Sounds like a horror novel, but this was real. "The man got into a crawl space in the building. ... He was in the...
Knocking Down Statues Is A Worldwide Tradition
King George III in New York, the Buddhas in Afghanistan, a traitorous general in Virginia - "scrutinizing monumental statuary is an integral part of...
Writers Need Editors, But Are Popular Grammar Checkers Worth It?
For $30 a month, maybe. But it lacks nuance, and can be "downright self-serving," making suggestions, for instance, to call itself an "excellent" service...
The Armorer For ‘Rust’ Was Set To Earn A Whopping 7,913 Dollars
That's a normal budget for an indie, but it does bring home grim realities of the industry. "The producers of the movie Rust earmarked $650,000 to...
Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Death Row Inmates’ Final Meals, 60
Green "planned to paint the meals until capital punishment was abolished, or until she had made 1,000 plates, whichever came first. In September, she...
Authors’ Guild Doubles Down On Support Of DOJ In Suit Against Merger
Boo from the Guild to the proposed Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster: "Consolidation doesn’t just stifle competition, it also makes acquisition...
Princess Di Is Back In The Public Spotlight, But Why Now?
Not entirely clear, but "Diana’s posthumous framing as a rebel against the establishment with an undercurrent of feminine fragility resonates — even among those...
After An Anti-Racism Review, Scottish Ballet Revamps Nutcracker
"Changes to characters, costumes and choreography will be made to 'remove elements of caricature,'" especially from the Land of the Sweets. In addition, Drosselmeyer...
Why So Many People Die In Concert Crowd Surges
The teens and adults who were killed in a crowd surge Friday night weren't the first, and probably won't be the last. "The music...
Brazilian Star Singer Marilia Mendonca, 26, Dies In A Plane Crash
Mendonça, Grammy winner and social media sensation, was killed in a small plane crash in Minas Gerais. "Her legions of fans found power in...
The Work It Takes To Create A Compelling Memoir
Just ask Laura Davis: "After many failed attempts at story architecture, with the help of several editors, my brilliant coach ... and 127 early...
England’s South West Region Gets A Big Boost From Bridgerton
The Netflix series revives the always-popular with Austenites tourism industry in Bath, but then there's David Attenborough's Our Planet and other productions that, said...
