Art and Culture

Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift, and The Point. These journals of…
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Twice in the last five years, the Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to a woman who takes eros seriously: Annie Ernaux, in 2022, and, now, Anne Carson. Each is, in her own way, a minimalist, and both have pursued…
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Michelangelo's calligraphy is entering computers around the world. Thanks to an…
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“I’ve been here 37 years and I’ve never had a busier summer,” said Tina Merrihew, 59, who owns a half-laundromat, half-doughnut shop. “Amazing what trolls can do. They’re instigators.” – The New York Times Source link
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FEP president Sonia DragaThe "main issue” facing the book trade is the declining number of readers, the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) warned in its annual Frankfurter Buchmesse presentation on the main data and trends in the EU…
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There’s good news, but also a few cautionary tales, from the results of Jacobs Media’s 2026 Public Radio…
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“It’s the type of dancing that makes you gasp. Jumps that originate from — and land on — the kneecaps. Turns that propel the body across a room as if it were powered by a motor. … It’s electrifying and extraordinarily athletic — and a…
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Two paintings, “Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman at the Well,” have been reclaimed by police after having been stolen last month from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice. (Two other paintings were dropped…
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New Delhi: After almost three years of negotiations, the Van Gogh Museum’s long-standing funding feud has officially ended. The renovation project will commence in autumn 2028. The museum and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and…
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A year ago James Marriott had a Substack post on “the dawn of the post-literate society” that as I write has over 21,000 likes and 6,000 restacks: clearly something that struck a chord. And now we have a book length treatment of…
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