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Yes, Wright peacocked around Chicago, and later Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in dandyish bespoke clothes, leaving unpaid creditors in his wake. He busted up two families…
Together, between the late 1960s and the 2008 financial crisis, they tore down the model of activist government intervention in the economy and replaced it with the simple idea that markets …
With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon's very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars…
Of course, that would mean it might need to release numbers because, after all, what is "successful" for Netflix? Bonuses for awards, however, might also be in the works at the streaming gia…
Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the new The Dutch House): "It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people sai…
Pavel Ustinov had been arrested during anti-government protests last month. The backlash against the case came largely from Moscow's theatre community, which carries plenty of social capital…
"It makes me crazy reading sloppy, typo-strewn copy. Ditto for readers, as has been made clear by the hundreds of emails I receive complaining about errors and inexcusable typos. The takeawa…
In Europe, an entire way of life is ending. "Around 1960, there were still about 110,000 nuns and monks in Germany. Twenty years ago, there were 38,348. Now, there are about 17,900." But wha…
These photographers have the covers of (American) Vogue or (British) Vogue, gain access to their subjects for portraits on social media, and change the way the people they photograph are tho…
The recent #BoysDanceToo discussion " and the need for that discussion " highlighted the issue that boys and men who become dancers, especially ballet dancers, face bullying and homophobia o…
Blamey was an utterly prolific illustrator of wildflowers. She "contributed all the colour illustrations, amounting to many thousands of paintings, for a succession of distinguished field gu…
Eisenberg's character Nog was supposed to be a joke, like all of the Ferengi. But Eisenberg helped change all of that. (And here's a Twitter thread that explains it more beautifully than a n…
Agree, disagree, tick off the ones you've read on a list … whatever, here they all are, from nonfiction to poetry to doorstop novels to graphic novel memoirs to everything else that won th…
Not really, but let's try: Strictly "is a lightheartedly competitive dance show that is still rigorously ruled by ancient stone tablets engraved with edicts and stored in a holy room at the …
The New Museum planned a whole festival about climate change. "Â IdeasCity Bronx … was supposed to feature a series of discussion panels, artist talks, performances, and workshops," but …
Williams, who won for playing Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, said, "The next time a woman " and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her w…
Well, let's start with the snubbing of Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but there were others. (Here's the complete list of winners, too.) " Variety
How can that be real? Chemistry, biology, physics … "The real measure of whether two people hit it off is how much they synchronise internal bodily functions, like heart rate and sweating.…
When playwrights get company residencies, they learn a lot " how seasons are put together, what kinds of casts theatres are looking for, and how not to take it personally when their plays do…
Keke Palmer came to fame playing Queen Latifah's niece, and 17 years later, she's about to become the host for the third hour of Good Morning America (oh, and she plays a part in the new mov…
E.M. Forster talks about himself and his work on Monitor. This interview was originally telecast by the BBC on December 21, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-rela…
"To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colours. Obviously bad men, obviously threatening or bribing, will al…
Is the account of this shofar credible? Holocaust historians say it definitely could be. "The impossible was possible, both to the bad and the good." " The New York Times
It's "a deranged hodge-podge," according to Andrzej Lukowski. The list of 50 shows "veers from resolutely mainstream to borderline obscure without a tremendous amount of sense or coherency. …
Kolodny, who specialized in incisive and groundbreaking " or perhaps ground-mending, to be a bit more ecofeminist about it " essays, "was a prodigious author and scholar with many area…
