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Novelist Kathleen McMahon says she's tired of flowers on publication day. "MacMahon says she does not like that writers are treated 'like show ponies . . . I'm not comfortable with that. I'd…
There are the familiar objects that suddenly seem to glow with importance " toilet paper rolls, Lysol wipes " and then there are the new objects: the to-go cocktail pouch, the ultra-large Bu…
In December of 2015, British novelist Ali Smith proposed an idea to her publishers: Four books in four years, as close to the time news events happened as possible. "I'd try to write one a y…
Eusebio Leal Spengler so loved the old city that he found ways to save it. "Never a priority in the 20th century, old Havana fell into disrepair. By befriending Fidel Castro, Leal began the …
Gayl Jones' debut work, Corregidora, "had a marked effect not only on [her editor Toni] Morrison's subsequent novels but on an entire generation of writers, whether they realized it or not."…
Ask choreographer Sarah Crowell. The artistic director emeritus of the Destiny Arts Center. "The inquiry requires that we look at all levels of society. We have a particular way of seeing be…
Tsitsi Dangarembga, an activist and award-winning writer who was just chosen for the Booker longlist, has been arrested in Zimbabwe while she was protesting the arrest and imprisonment of in…
Not surprisingly, different readers had passionate (and passionately differing) opinions about their book collections and an essay recreating a cull. "While it is fine to move so-so books al…
The actor excelled at playing cantankerous characters but came to fame playing an assistant engineer at a nuclear plant in The China Syndrome. Later, he became famous for his spokesperson ro…
Though the theatre tried hard to attract smaller, socially distanced crowds as it reopened in June, no one was ready to return to an indoor space, and tickets didn't sell. The now common ref…
"These systemic barriers " no one seemed to notice, no one seemed to care, and so we felt like we had to say something," says Jennifer Holness, who adds that even as the most senior Black fi…
The U.S. president's TikTok flipout might not just be because of its security issues; indeed, there's a lot more to it, including free speech … and Facebook. "It's a rare feat to upturn tw…
Morgan Jerkins wanted to know more about where her people came from: "I hated the fact that I didn't know much about land. I didn't know about harvest, high tide, low tide, the levees, the d…
Keenan Scott II explains: "We tend to be rewarded for depicting the harshest realities of the Black experience while ignoring its beauty. In art, our trauma is fetishized and romanticized wh…
Alyssa Cole, author of books about the Civil War and contemporary life, decided to write a thriller. One of the issues she has faced: "There are people who find the idea of Black people in l…
Plush toymaking, giving dancing lessons (via Zoom, of course), selling skincare products … stagehands, costume designers, actors, and everyone associated with Broadway are trying to figure…
In China, some areas of the country can require movie theatres to give an intermission in the middle of movies that are more than two hours long. Hurray for bathroom breaks? "There is not ye…
Classic Hollywood movies are getting spitshined and put out again, so why not video games as well? "'Nostalgia is the major driving force for the success of a remake,' said Doug Clinton, man…
It seems like the entire edifice is teetering. If you can't pay musicians, you can't get live music. Culture, while a major economic sector, will likely be one of the last to restart after t…
Even before the pandemic, Greece's theaters were in trouble. Years of austerity saw government spending on the arts slashed, with subsidies for the largest theaters cut in half, or withdrawn…
From woodblock printing (3rd century) to movable type (11th century " sorry, Gutenberg) to stereotyping (in the original sense; ca. 1700) to paperbacks (ca. 1845) to hot-metal typesetting (c…
For a group of scholars, scientists and musicians, Hagia Sophia's rededication as a Muslim place of worship threatens to cloak a less tangible treasure: its sound. Bissera Pentcheva, an art …
Alexis Soloski: "As an undergraduate 20 years ago, I had majored in theater and back then, our training was exclusively and incontrovertibly face to face. Good acting happened in the moment,…
Born in Calais, France, Fabrice Fourmanoir, 63, might once have been dismissed as a crackpot, a wannabe who would never be welcomed into the sophisticated enclave of art scholarship. But sin…
He was nominated for the best-director Oscar for the 1978 film "Midnight Express" and again 10 years later for "Mississippi Burning." " The New York Times
