Charles Rivkin, former Ambassador to France and assistant Secretary of State, is the new chair of the Motion Picture Association of America (and the representative for the six "old-line" stu…
The "world's first novel" is an epic quest, full of monsters and trials by combat - and kids who grew up on Marvel, Star Wars, and video games really get it.
Sure, the First Amendment prohibits the government from making a law "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," but current case law on religious fr…
This is the history of how the Catholic Church in Ireland influenced the law in the 1930s - and made it possible for any parish priest to stop any dance he didn't like, for any reason, with …
She denies this firmly, but ... wow. "Her more than 30 books have covered topics including linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary theory and feminism. Her many prestigious honors include the …
In Mary H.K. Choi's Emergency Contact, she writes about a young woman's love for her mother, and the young woman's falling in love, through texts, with a guy. "It's a difficult balancing act…
The Harlequin Theatre in Olympia, Washington, was hit hard a couple of weeks ago when a Seattle Times story revealed that one of its founders ignored harassment accusations because he was "s…
Sultanof Arrangements, Part 2 Today, Rifftides offers the second installment of scholar, teacher and historian Jeff Sultanof's essay on pleasures and challenges in the craft of correcting ar…
Want to know how the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster affected the entire music industry, from management to tours to sponsorship and owning venues? The NYT explains, and explains the …
Jamael Westman says that "Wakanda forever" is part of what he says when parting from friends now - "It becomes a state of mind" - and talks about why he likes playwriting podcasts: "Amazing …
They're fed up and don't want to take it anymore, after the last two years of the prize have resulted in wins from U.S. authors. "The crescendo of frustration may have reached a peak. A grou…
Seriously: "Fewer and fewer people look to old stories for real enlightenment these days, and for many, questions of right and wrong can seem old-fashioned. But that's not to say there isn't…
Though Coates said he was "really tired and kind of suspicious" as the book became a bestseller and cultural touchstone in 2015 - and he resisted his friend Kamilah Forbes' ideas about turni…
The style has its roots in colonialism, and in a place that hasn't been Mexico for quite some time. Carolina Miranda has the story: "The architectural style known as Colonial Californiano is…
The problem isn't these two curators, specifically (though the "Black Panther" references are flying thick and fast on Twitter), it's this widespread institutional issue: "African-Americans …
Amy Wegener is the literary director for Actors Theatre of Louisville, and she's the leader of the pack when it comes to finding scripts, reading plays, and getting everyone - artistic direc…
The firm Band Management Union charged artists up to £4,000 for services, did nothing for the artists - and has now closed its website and email addresses and canceled its phones. One art…
Yes, OK, part of it might be the source material. And yet even objectively terrible adaptations like 2016's World of Warcraft show that "there's clearly money to be made here, which explains…
The statue of a Black woman in a country where 98 percent of statues are of white men, is nearly 23 feet tall and was inspired by Mary Thomas, Queen Mary, a 19th-century rebel queen who led …
Yikes; "Community United is asking a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to vacate the approvals for the museum's planned 203,000-square-foot Richard Gilder Center in Theodore Roosevelt Park, clai…
University student (and English major) Banita Sandhu grew up in Caerleon, Wales, but she had to go to India to find commercial actiing success. "While Bollywood is traditionally perceived as…
Aimee Meredith Cox, an associate professor at Yale, might say so. "While working in Brooklyn, Detroit, and Newark, Cox noticed communities, particularly communities of women, gathering toget…
As "Angels" gets major revivals on both coasts (and "Caroline, or Change" transfers to the West End in London), Kushner says he's tried to get his most famous work out of his head - but he j…
Whew: "Tensions over the role of galleries in the gentrification of the predominantly working-class Boyle Heights neighborhood have often swirled around 356 Mission, one of the district's la…
Shreve enjoyed putting her protagonists, usually women, in stressful situations. She "drew critical acclaim and a large following with books like 'The Weight of Water' (1997), an intricate s…