First of all, she has a daily podcast called The Slowdown (which honestly sounds perfect for a poet). She says that poems "remind us of what we feel. They bring language that may not have ex…
Truly, Hollywood is risk-averse, or at least its funders are. But "The Matrix was a mash-up of the Wachowskis' many interests, blending their love of anime, martial-arts movies, cyberpunk…
Yes, this is a minute-by-minute fact check of the ballet scenes (and the overarching sudden ballet plot) in the show's third season. " Dance Magazine
Cookbooks not only didn't die, but one in the UK is selling as fast as J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown. What? "The future that Leith and Smith feared " where we do all our cooking from online sea…
The cult classic turns 30 in a world where it could never get made again " and a world where Ryder became the representative for a certain section of her generation. Screenwriter Daniel Wate…
Or at least that's the claim a book editor is making: "In publishing circles, you often hear the phrase 'I put up with it because I love my job so much' " we accept the shortcomings and remi…
Life-altering: "It was a week after the funeral of textile artist and teacher Joan Charnley, who died, at 84, in the summer of 2016, that her solicitor got in touch with her neighbours, Juli…
Darcy Bussell says that men used to be in ballet simply to be women's "extraordinary crutch," but that now, "women were struggling to keep up with the technical and physical abilities of mal…
When more than 95 percent of your voting members make the same choice, you know, as a union, that's where you need to go. In this case, "members of the Writers Guild of America voted overwhe…
Award-winning British poet Kate Clanchy has been a teacher for 30 years, and she's made some pretty big changes in her current school. "We keep winning poetry prizes at national level, which…
Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire, Lion, and now Hotel Mumbai, says that when he finds a new project, "after that initial excitement, you're just drenched with fear of, now I have to actual…
The masterminds behind Game of Thrones wanted to garner even more excitement for the series' final season, so they sent people off on random quests for, well, thrones. Here's the wild, weird…
Siri Hustvedt: "Masculinity has a purifying effect, femininity a polluting one. The chain of associations that infect our thought dates back to the Greeks in the west: male, mind-intellect, …
Though honestly, no one understands the mysterious algorithm of this app, it has created a weird new window into work: "TikTok, which encourages users to contribute short videos to hashtags,…
There's a lot going on here. And then there's the layer wherein The National Enquirer's parent company tried to make sure Bezos and his security chief signed a contract saying they wouldn't …
Oswald started curating the collection when it had about 350 items in 1947, and built it into this: "You can walk into the dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Ar…
Painter Elizabeth Colomba's goals include getting Black women into Western art history " and changing how people look at Black women in general. "When you think about black women wearing a p…
Tobias S. Buckell: "Nora K. Jemisin  was just saying on Twitter the other day that in science fiction we have this venerable tradition of using metaphor to dig at some of these problems"l…
In The Gleaners and I and Faces Places, Varda paid attention to the France that feels left behind by the powerful and rich. But there was a secondary benefit as well: "She had wanted to pay …
Two new collections of Michael Butterworth's early short stories " stories he thought lost for good " show his early days as a literary SF writer. " Jan Herman
A press release that touts a a composer who became famous nearly 100 years ago as "contemporary" has us smiling. " Greg Sandow
How are these young people, in their teens and young twenties, getting so much streaming play on Spotify? "These artists have virtually no media profile, no radio play, most don't seem to ha…
Le Monde isn't mincing words here. While the U.S., at least one novelist claims, has a blockbuster mentality, France is much more welcoming, a place where "several of these authors, who no l…
Turns out that the watchers on the wall " that is, the members of English Heritage who staff Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, the border with Scotland " have been answering Game of Thrones …
At a time when the Writers Guild of America is trying desperately to get its members better positioned in the industry, suffice it to say that the union is not impressed with the Endeavor ag…