Sitting through a show of that length might seem manageable enough if you're young and in good health, less so if you have a medical condition like Crohn's disease or other hidden disability…
Serious authors create; self-help writers multiply. But the influence of self-help on prestigious literature is much deeper and more sustained than figures such as Macdonald would have us be…
Since taking over as general director in October, Khori Dastoor, 39, has been on a tear behind the scenes " beefing up staffing levels, setting ambitious financial goals and consulting with …
The third season, which stars Olivia Colman as the Queen, was watched in 21 million homes in its first four weeks. That was 40% more than saw the second season over the same time period, Net…
Anthony Lane: "Fellini is the great divider. "La Dolce Vita" was the film most loved by Roger Ebert, for whom it was transformed with every viewing, whereas Pauline Kael likened Fellini's ef…
We seem to project enormously intense feelings onto books, feelings that make us protective of them and furious toward those we perceive as threatening them. We think of our books as symbols…
The number of UK domicile first year students (first degree) selecting historical and philosophical subjects fell by 5% between 2017-18 and 2018-19, contributing to a 17.5% decline in popula…
Calling all painters! Join us in exploring the beautiful shores of the Bay of Fundy on the Parrsboro Shores where the highest tides in the world are found. Juried applicants get a chance to …
The third edition of the study, spearheaded by USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative founder Stacy L. Smith, was announced Tuesday, revealing that for 2020, the percentage of female nominees in…
It was, for Scruton, impossible to conceive of society without prejudices and exclusions, discrimination and inequality. That's why his views, despite mellowing over the years, never substan…
Within anthropology, Mead is still revered, but mostly as a way to understand the discipline's origins. In the popular mind, Mead's name has all but vanished, her reputation whittled down to…
Students of Asian American literature have often been far more familiar with what is wrong with Aiiieeeee! than with Aiiieeeee! itself. From the earliest days of its publication, many Asian …
"There's a massive hole," producer Lyndsay Magid Aviner said of the lack of urban dance on New York stages. Coming from the circus world, the Aviners said they believe there's a broad audien…
Netflix has acquired all rights to the untitled Leonard Bernstein film that Bradley Cooper will direct, star in and produce from the script he co-wrote with Oscar-winning Spotlight scribe Jo…
The controversy over "Attack Helicopter" is another case study suggesting that rejecting "art's for art's sake" in favor of "art for justice's sake" doesn't necessarily yield more justice. I…
AI-assisted editing won't make Oscar-Âworthy auteurs out of us. But amateur visual storytelling will probably explode in complexity. Even tools for one-to-one video messaging might evolve…
The woman next to us very politely turns round and shushes them. It does no good. They are out for the afternoon, they are going to make a loud and long fuss over a Capri Sun and they are go…
Podcasts rich in detail and narrative are finding big audiences. But many of the stories they tell are misleading or inaccurate. How do we know? How do we vet? " Harper's
Had Turing lived longer, perhaps the state of artificial intelligence would encompass more than drearily corporate banalities such as the Amazon checkout window making suggestions about what…
Status-mongering is the mess that results from leaving some of our ethical theorizing undone. We don't know who we think we are, and it shows. " The Point
Using metrics designed by evolutionary biologists, they compared the rates of cultural change to the rates of biological change for finches from the Galapagos Islands, two kinds of moths, an…
The announcement comes as the publicly funded BBC is facing intense political and public pressure amid a fast-changing media landscape and viewing habits. It has been criticized by both side…
Studying how people move to music is a powerful tool for researchers looking to understand how and why music affects us the way it does. Over the last few years, researchers at the Centre fo…
Mr. Heath's saxophone sound was spare but playful, with a beaming tone that exuded both joy and command. But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for lar…
By blurring out details from protest signs in an image of the 2017 Women's March, including the name of President Trump and references to the female anatomy " a decision the Archives publicl…