In her writing on her site and in her massively popular books, Evans "confronted every controversial issue in American evangelical culture. She wrote about biblical literalism, racism, abort…
That is to say, occasionally trans women get cast as women, no need to elaborate, and sometimes trans men get cast as men, ditto. But. "While television has made great strides in L.G.B.T.Q. …
Margo Martindale, who is so famously called that name that it's her official title on the Netflix show Bojack Horseman: "Sometimes you do things for money, and sometimes you do things for mo…
Carmichael's is the oldest independent bookstore in the city, and the founders just passed over the reins to their daughter and niece. How do you "modernize" a bookstore " or do you? " The N…
Or so says a reviewer of the entries: "Like most creaking institutions built upon the cursed ground of a prize named for a self-hating, racist xenophobe, it's also haunted." " The Guardian (…
Ahmed Joudah began life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, auditioned for the main ballet company in Damascus as a completely self-taught dancer when he was 16, then had to flee Syria w…
As anyone who's read The Iliad knows, it's about men being mad at each other and going to war. That results in some great writing, true, but there's a lot more left to say about the cost of …
The abuser, who hadn't had anything to do with the festival, or so Sundance says, since 1993, went on to make religious and family-themed movies for the Mormon Church " until one of his vict…
What will happen to classical in this world where labels have to get the algorithms on an artist's side side " and appeal to a bunch of people making the playlists on Spotify. "Last year the…
A young director who had three weeks to devise a musical with 14 over-50 LGBTQ-identified actors says that her generation needs to hear more about the past, and that they're good for theatre…
Scottish crime writer Denise Mina says it's not possible. "I think a lot of people are wanting to run, to get the fuck out of here, so I wanted to write a really engaging world for them to b…
The Film Society at Lincoln Center isn't that anymore " it's simply Film at Lincoln Center, a move that is intended to appeal to a younger, and broader, crowd. Society, so old-school. " The …
Otherwise, everything else collapses " and you don't need to be writing science fiction to use science. "Science provides a clear and pragmatic framework with which to view the murkier and l…
Tenured professors, perhaps? This article thinks so. "As far back as 1972, The New York Times reported that the [American Historical Association] was 'facing open discontent in its ran…
The author of The Trust Exercise was doing research about cults, Scientology, and some of the power of repetition in molding disparate people into one focused group. But, she says, that wasn…
No, it's not an issue, but it might be soon. Median usage is 200GB a month of streaming data (the Comcast limit is one terabyte a month, and then users have to pay). Sure, "200GB a month is …
The internet has democratized many things, including, in some case, criticism that isn't thoughtful. But professional critics still take their knowledge, and their craft, seriously. "Lively …
Perhaps France, awash in donations for its cathedral, could help its former colony of Haiti with the rebuilding efforts for Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Port-au-Prince. " The Atlantic
Tayari Jones had several well-reviewed books before American Marriage too off last year. She remembers, "I published my first book in 2002 and I remember that I was at Bread Loaf [Writers' C…
"A handful of self-proclaimed white nationalists interrupted an appearance by an author at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday afternoon, chanted 'This land …
The hated pop stars are, of course, almost all women. And, by the way, "isn't there an inherent irony in cinema offering a 'serious' take on mass culture while seeking commercial gain? Few o…
Bernardine Evaristo co-founded Britain's Theatre of Black Women in the 1980s, and she's not shy about using her experience in a new novel " or the experiences and lives of other Black Britis…
At least, that's what tenor Andreas Schager claims. "But his path to singing Siegfried at the Met … was unusual. Mr. Schager, who was born Andreas Schagerl in the small town of Rohrbach an…
"Trumpeter Jason Palmer made it clear with his substantial tone, wide range and flexibility that he had the potential to become one of the new century's outstanding trumpeters" " and now he …
When a critic sees 12 plays in 10 days: Theatre "restored my vision, or at least handed me a roadmap of our location, emotionally and psychically speaking " one that extended beyond Manhatta…