Hoang's first novel, The Kiss Quotient, had an autistic main character " and so does her second. She says, "There was this website I looked at " I don't want to tell you what it is, because …
The 1990s really did last into today: "Must See TV veterans have helped shape some of the most groundbreaking shows of the Peak TV era, including Homeland, The Handmaid's Tale, Atlanta, The …
If you ignore the controversies surrounding some "sloppiness" in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy awards last year (and maybe this year too), you can just focus o…
Really. "The botanist David Hosack transformed this landscape into the country's first public botanical garden in 1801. His creation, the 20-acre Elgin Botanic Garden, would come to contain …
But there's a pretty strong reason to read " or attempt to read, or annotate " difficult works. "So is it an indecipherable ruse or a harbinger of hypertext? Could it even be … therapeutic…
Amy Sherald: "With a successful career, you have to hire some assistants to help, otherwise I can imagine that you would have to snort a lot of cocaine and drink a lot of coffee to just, lik…
They're learning to sing without a voice box, and they literally do have a choir. " BBC
Well, British Film Institute, you wanted to "start a conversation," and you sure have. " BBC
What a heartbreak her life was after To Kill a Mockingbird, and her attempted true-crime book turned out similarly: "Despite amassing more than enough Maxwelliana for a book, she could not g…
There's some massive underrepresentation, and certainly underfunding. For the new El Chicano, for instance, the filmmaker says, "It took a bunch of Canadian hockey fans to get behind an all-…
The seductive intelligence of a manifesto. " Jan Herman
Vulture somehow found time to photograph and interview a lot of people on the list: "The nominees spoke about their shows, their collaborators, their group texts, and their reactions to bein…
The Delos experiment: "In the absence of human contact " only guards and archaeologists have inhabited Delos in more recent times " the remains of a sanctuary and entire city have survived l…
Are abandoned malls a special category, or are they more like abandoned warehouses, boarded-up downtowns, left-behind elementary schools? Right now, they seem to be bleak " and a growing iss…
Congrats to the Jazz Journalists Association award winners! " Doug Ramsey
Spooner made her name with a photo of the woman at the center of the John Profumo scandal, but she did much more. "'Who'd ever imagine a woman might be a photographer on a national newspaper…
At Rosmersholm, "there is a slight problem with damp." " David Jays
The movie Where Hands Touch is about a young adult romance " about what happened to the generation of biracial young Germans who were born to white German mothers and French colonial African…
Some have suggested it was as stroke, but he showed no other signs of impairment. His injury suggests it may have been something else: "The ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little f…
The fault lies in contemporary politics, of course, but also in the origins of the discipline: "In Europe, academic study of the Middle Ages developed in tandem with a romantic nationalism t…
David Bedella says he has to focus on LA instead of London. "TV offers celebrity and financial security and these things are important in an age where you don't know where your next job is c…
Poet Imtiaz Dharker had been tipped by several British news sources as the next poet laureate, following Carol Ann Duffy, but she said no: "I had to weigh the privacy I need to write poems a…
The comic, or maybe graphic novel series, Love and Rockets is "the rare pop cultural artifact that renders Latinas not as archetypes, but as rich and profound human beings full of messy cont…
It's a pop music festival, of course (where are we with that equal rep, classical and new music festivals?). But not of course, because no other festival has achieved anything like parity. S…
A volunteer usher: "We don't realize the richness this music brings into our lives until we don't have it. … Our souls were hungry." " Chicago Tribune