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"When there is no hope, there can be no endeavour." Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (November 6, 1750)
For years, the promise of instant book publishing hovered just over the horizon, like the promise of flying cars. This decade, it finally came true. " Washington Post
In an age of blockbuster best sellers and cutthroat competition in a shrinking industry, Mr. Mehta was an almost ideal editor and publishing executive: a voracious reader and instinctive dec…
Passion for artistic freedom is ballasted by a concern for the economic welfare of artists. Whatever excitement the future holds for the American theater, it's thanks to artistic leaders lik…
Michiko Kakutani: "Apocalypse is not yet upon our world as the 2010s draw to an end, but there are portents of disorder. The hopes nourished during the opening years of the decade " hopes th…
The gallery gave no details about its condition. A spokesperson said: "The work of art is with our conservation team for expert assessment. Tate Modern remains open." " BBC
Kupfer's career began in Stralsund, then part of communist East Germany, in 1958. After stations in Chemnitz " formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt " Weimar and Dresden, he became director at the Komisc…
The removal of melted scaffolding requires "three levels of steel beams to be positioned around its exterior to form a stabilising "belt". Once this operation is complete, the same firm that…
Most people who live near the Cateura dump outside Asunción, the Paraguayan capital, scratch out a living by digging out anything that can be resold, and buying a musical instrument would…
"In the course of a writing life that spans 60 years, she's changed the dramatic landscape of two centuries, and evolved more than any other British playwright our conceptions of what a play…
Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation has clawed its way to $38 million globally after two weeks in theaters, a dismal figure that could result in $100 million in theatrical losses, according t…
Chipaul and Mille Cao, who grew up as members of wartime Vietnam's ethnic Chinese minority, met at a dance party just six months before the Communist takeover of the entire country; they fle…
Connected technologies put pressure on our normative concepts like privacy, autonomy, and manipulation by changing the world so that our old concepts no longer apply and by pushing us to com…
"We're often told, in hand-wringing tones, about the growing differences between red and blue states, and about our increasingly divisive political and social rhetoric. But, in Dos Passos's …
"Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway, among others, were all Gray's bairns. Authors invited Gray to illustrate their books. Little magazines sported his self-portraits …
"At the archaeological site of Kulubá, nestled amid the lowland forests of Mexico's Yucatán state, experts have unearthed the remains of a large palace" " six rooms, 180 feet long, 50 …
As the year and decade end, "it will shut its doors for the last time, becoming a glass-and-steel white elephant " and an almost-too-obvious metaphor for the crisis facing America's newspape…
"Barbara Testa had enjoyed a perfectly anonymous life in Hollywood until she crawled up in the attic one day and opened a steamer trunk left behind by her grandfather, a 19th-century attorne…
"It feels like we're leaving this decade light years ahead of where we entered it. In 2010, salacious stories about queer people were still routinely seen in tabloids and on TV. Today, LGBTQ…
"GagaOOLala brings more than 1,000 feature films, shorts, web series, and documentaries to people across Asia, where censorship and traditional attitudes mean there has been little in the wa…
In Pittsburgh, at least, it seems not to be nights at all: it's weekend matinees, across the genres. Sara Bauknecht and Jeremy Reynolds get into the details. " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
City officials are especially sensitive to the possibility of losing the Sarasota Orchestra after the recent relocation of two other cultural institutions outside of the city. " Sarasota Her…
Mrs. T and I were in truly dire straits a year ago today, enough so that I tremble now to remember what we were going through. Alas, things have been just as bad for us in recent weeks, but …
From 2004: The last sound I heard before I got in my rental car this morning and headed for the Smalltown city limits was a train whistle. My brother tells me that more freight trains have b…
"Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing." Clive James, "Exploring the Medium"
