The key point: Home entertainment has evolved into a true multiplatform business. Universal found that consumers are using around three platforms on average, the most common bundle being dis…
"If we don't reinvent drama training to reflect the different needs of students from much more diverse backgrounds " and that includes those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds " i…
A tour of some of the many paintings created in 1924. " Hyperallergic
American Historical Association meetings aren't known for rousing policy debates. At this year's gathering, however, there was a sense that historians' perspectives are sorely needed in curr…
The challenge of a world without work isn't just economic but political and psychological. To paraphrase the children's author Richard Scarry: what will people do all day? You can only conte…
Plaintiffs in copycat cases are largely targeting megahit songs because they've seen where the money is, and the increasing frequency of those court battles in headlines is causing an avalan…
Is fiction more like the covert violation of the liar, or like the overt violation of the ironical speaker? Unlike the liar, the fiction author doesn't hide her untruthful intentions: they'r…
Top-line figures obscure "hidden secrets" plaguing the film industry. Chief among these is the fact that the average occupancy rate of theaters across the country has hit a new five-year low…
Scruton, who died after a short battle with cancer, was a controversial figure throughout his career as a right-wing philosopher. Author of The Aesthetics of Architecture and The Classica…
The academic study of literature is no longer on the verge of field collapse. It's in the midst of it. Preliminary data suggest that hiring is at an all-time low. Entire subfields (modernism…
Despite a plethora of diverse films competing for Oscar love this year, the Academy largely maintained its traditional point of view, handing out the most nominations to four very male, very…
Streaming changed the way we listened to music, and music changed in response to the way we listened. Songs got shorter, genres bled into one another, and language barriers dissolved. " BBC
If there's any lesson that the decline of Christianity holds for the painful death of the English department, it's that if you aspire to keep your faith alive even in a reduced, non-hegemoni…
Perhaps not surprisingly, more than half are books for children or young readers. No. 1 is "The Snowy Day," Ezra Jack Keats's picture book that is one of the first to depict an African-Ameri…
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"I imagine that Cunningham came to understand not only the value of this kind of in-depth documentation, but the independent strength of the photographs as well. The elemental vitality and s…
"Whether Jo is tackling Amy for a most grievous sisterly infraction or the sisters are tumbling over each other to get ready for a party, Gerwig keeps the sisters in constant, surging motion…
Ben Cadwallader has been executive director of Vermont Symphony since 2015. In 2016, he was one of nine arts administrators selected by the League of American Orchestras for its Emerging Lea…
Pronouns, along with conjunctions and prepositions, are generally considered a "closed class" " a group of words whose number rarely grows and whose meanings rarely change. So when pronouns …
The books have the same publisher. They credit the same authors. But they are customized for students in different states, and their contents sometimes diverge in ways that reflect the natio…
In Hitler's Germany linguistic habits shaped attitude and culture, and eventually acquiescence to a system of segregation and dehumanization. The language of the Third Reich was corrosive, a…
A lot of time I don't know what I want to play. So I just start playing, and try to make it right, and make it join to some other kind of feeling in the music. Like, I play one note, maybe t…
Languages do exist, but they are not necessarily the things we take them for. On the one hand, we each have an understanding of at least our mother tongue that allows us to produce sentences…
Cecilia Alemani, born in Milan in 1977, has directed the High Line's art program since 2011, where she has commissioned large-scale works by artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Carol Bove,…
The Artistic Genius is male because men are most fit to be Artistic Geniuses. The goalposts of greatness are hyper-specific, socially manipulated, and ultimately less interested in the aesth…