The Thrill Of A Great Takedown
Honestly, readers love them. "There’s something a little sexy about a well-executed negative review. ... A great pan does not just point out what’s missing...
Comedy As The Ancient, And Modern, Practice Of Joy
D'Lo is a "self-described queer/transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American cultural-worker-activist-poet-writer-actor-comic" in L.A. He says, "as comedians we have a lot of power. We can say...
Susie Steiner Helped Reinvent The Crime Novel Even As She Went Blind
The author, who died at 51, only had time to produce three books in her series, but her agent says, "I’ve lost track of...
At Least One United States Court Understands Comedy
Roy Moore, whom history will remember for putting a marble Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building and being banned from a mall...
Bookstores Are Back, Baby
Indie bookstores are positively booming - and they're more diverse than ever. This is a shock (a wonderful shock), considering that in the early...
Making Activist Art A Conduit For Hope In Troubled Times
Andrea Bowers's show opened on June 24, the day that the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe. "When you enter the first...
How The Waterlily Changed Architecture
"When seeds of this amazing plant first made their way to Victorian England from South America, they sparked off a race among the British...
James Caan: An Appreciation
For instance: "He was unforgettably perfect — carnal, wild, exciting. Caan may not be the actor you first think of in relation to The...
You Are Not The Great American (Or British, Or French, And So Forth) Novelist
And the sooner you embrace your essential ordinariness, the better for your writing. - LitHub
The Point Of Pointless Goals
Let us now praise things that bring us joy, like the person who determined to walk across the United States in a cartoon bear...
A New Delhi-Based Queer Arts Group Abandoned Documenta After Racist And Transphobic Harassment
Documenta apparently told the group to rely on a private security firm and German police, both of which organizations proved, the artists say, to...
It’s Never Too Late To Learn Ballet
Or so this ballerina tells the adults taking her classes. - CBC
The Deaf Artist Who Loves Working With Sound
Christine Sun Kim "has become the very rare artist with a public platform that transcends the often insular art world." - The New York...
Capitalizing On Meme Culture, But Very Carefully
How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony...
Harvey Dinnerstein, Who Sketched The Civil Rights Movement, Has Died At 94
When Dinnerstein was 27, "he traveled to Alabama with fellow artist Burton Silverman, a high school classmate, to chronicle the bus boycott in Montgomery."...
A New Study Says Literary Snobs Are Right
In short, reading literary fiction seems to give readers a more complex worldview. - LitHub
Those Who No Longer Want To Teach, Do
Thomas Woodruff traded his career as an art professor for a full-time career as an artist. Like others who experienced the Great Resignation, he's...
Back To The Future: Canadian Internet Goes Down — Fans Urged To Print Tickets...
Rogers posted a notice on its website Friday saying the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting...
Libraries Are Digitizing And Something’s Being Lost
Many institutions have moved, or are on the verge of moving, significant portions of their collections off-site. Some are embarking on large-scale book de-accessioning...
America’s First Luthier And (Probably) First Composer Of Chamber Music
"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the...
Hong Kong’s Huge New Palace Museum Opens
While it might share a name with the historic Forbidden City institution, the $450 million Hong Kong museum is far from being a mere...
Why Do Writers Write?
There is often something compulsive about the act of writing, as if to cast out invasive thoughts. - The Paris Review
Are Museums Investing Their Money In Positive Ways?
hat about the ways the museums are using the money they already have: Are they using it to effect positive change in the world—or...
Using Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to...
Who’s Running The Ship? San Francisco Makes More Major Changes In Its Leadership
For nearly a year now, SF Symphony has operated without a CEO and has been without a chief financial officer since January — not a time for making...
