Tag: 06.13.21
Literary Novelists Rediscover Historical Fiction
As students of history know, fashions ebb and flow; it’s increasingly clear that the historical novel is being embraced and reinvented. - The New...
Rem Koolhaas And Patrick Doan Re-imagine Maps Of Europe
National boundaries, it would seem, hold very little meaning at all. The squiggles hint at other political geographies, from the deeper past or some...
Eight Parking Stalls For Every Car: Here’s How Cities Are Trying To Change That
We found that the Green Code is changing Buffalo’s urban form in ways that had been difficult, if not impossible, under former zoning rules....
New Yorker Unionization Effort Divides Writers
The unionization effort has created an uncomfortable moment for the writers at The New Yorker, who have the kind of jobs and influence every...
Accusations Of Drug, Psychological, And Sexual Abuse Rock Maurice Béjart’s Dance Company
"Switzerland's prestigious Béjart Ballet Lausanne company faces a probe as allegations of drug use, harassment and abuse of power raise the question why nothing...
Why I Turned Down A Queen’s Honor For Literature
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire? Is this the title I’m asked to carry? I cannot think of anything I...
A Major New Museum Rises In Orange County
The $93 million building by Morphosis Architects, the 80-personstudio founded by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, was designed to be many things: the new...
“In The Heights” Was Hyped As Summer’s First Hit. Opening Box Office Says Nope
The Warner Bros. musical generated a wane $11.4 million from 3,456 U.S. theaters in its first four days of release, below earlier expectations suggesting...
In North Carolina, A New Statue Will Honor Formerly Hidden History
A few days ago, David Zucchino's book on the 1898 Wilmington Massacre won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, a new statue is about to go...
Theatre In A Slowly Reopening Canada Worries It’s Being Left Behind
One Vancouver AD says that his colleagues are extremely burned out - and also worried about what's coming. On the other hand, post-pandemic: "I...
Envisioning A Kinder, More Beautiful Apocalypse
Filmmaker Jim Mickle: "I started asking questions like, 'What if you could make an apocalyptic story where you actually want to go to that...
Jeanne-Claude And Christo Drew Up Plans In 1962 To Wrap The Arc De Triomphe
Now, their plans are becoming reality. According to Christo's nephew, "A photo montage of how it would look was done but they never proposed...
The Healing Power Of Queer Coming Of Age Stories
Books can be intensely powerful for some people, especially when the books do the work of repairing past pain. "'So many queer people 'have...
Ned Beatty, Prolific Actor Of Stage And Screen, 83
Beatty's roles "captured the full spectrum of humanity — from sincerity to villainy, buffoonery to tragedy — and made him one of the most...
The Blogger Preserving Jewish Ballet
In college, Beatrice Waterhouse started wondering where she could find information about Jews in the ballet world. So she created a Tumblr site, "'People...
Quantum Computing Will Not Change Everything
Despite the hype, the reality is different - and to resist the hucksters, we need to understand why. - Wired
How Historical Fiction Became Literary Again
For decades, the literary world disdained historical fiction. "It has been seen as its own fusty fashion, relentlessly uncontemporary and easy to caricature, filled...
What Hollywood Could Learn From The ‘Kim’s Convenience’ Scandal
The sitcom's actors took to social media to say more about the series' abrupt end - and the series itself. Their posts "threw into...