“Given that August is Women in Translation Month (or WITMO2015), we decided to put together a starter list of essential women writers in translation. Certainly it’s an incomplete list, but we did our best to take the long view” – all the way back to the 10th century.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Miami Drags Its Feet On Wealthy Collector’s Self-Funded Museum – Until Getting Publicly Shamed
The museum proposed by hedge fund tycoon Steven Berkowitz – which would house sculptor Richard Serra’s enormous Passage of Time and James Turrell’s light installation Aten Reign – was stalled by local government. Then The Miami Herald wrote, “It’s baffling when an opportunity arises for taxpayers to benefit from the generosity of a wealthy investor and art patron – and the city of Miami acts like it doesn’t care.”
La MaMa, New York’s Legendary Experimental Theater, Adds A Fourth Stage
The venue, called The Downstairs, “will contain a 150-seat theater, an exhibition space and a classroom, and will emphasize new media and multidisciplinary work. Its opening is part of a larger $30 million renovation and restoration.”
Quentin Tarantino Talks Casting, Barack Obama, And Cinematic Influence
“I’m a legit filmmaker of my generation who’s leading the pack. Hitchcock saw his techniques done by other people, and that was all great. Spielberg saw his techniques copied – that just means you’re having an impact. … There’s a little part of me that thinks everything is influenced by me, but that’s just my own megalomania.”
The High-Tech Designer Handbag That Plays Contemporary Classical Music
Diana Broussard’s dbCHRONICLE not only has a customizable LCD screen, it has a soundtrack: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s optimism, performed by So Percussion. (includes video trailer)
Why Cinema Came of Age In 1915
“In the first of a new series on early cinema, we celebrate the landmark year … when the industry as we know it was born. Plus, five films from 1915 to watch (which aren’t Birth of a Nation).” (includes video clips, of course)
Why Sticking A Pair Of Eyeballs On A Sign Actually Changes Behavior
“One American security sign company, MySecuritySign.com, has even made it a standard feature on their sign templates … This isn’t simply a way for sign companies to make a quick extra buck. There’s actually science to back it up.”
When Freud Meets fMRIs – Neuropsychoanalysis Is Now A Thing
“With their starkly different goals, methods, and cultures, psychoanalysis and neuroscience can appear to be two different species, mutually alienated, as if preoccupied with two altogether different pursuits. But to some, like Solms, they are merely two views of the same object.”
Why Did Ray Bradbury Have An FBI File? Because Science Fiction Was A Communist Plot To Undermine American Values, That’s Why
As one document said, “The general aim of these science fiction writers is to frighten the people into a state of paralysis or psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria.”
Leftist Literary Journals Funded By The CIA, Ranked
Oh yes, it’s true. After all, “in much of Europe in the 1950s, socialists, people who called themselves ‘left’ – the very people whom many Americans thought no better than Communists – were about the only people who gave a damn about fighting Communism.” Consequently, “the CIA became a major player in intellectual life during the Cold War.”