What happened to reading Rebecca West? Her 1941 nonfiction “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” was often listen as a top nonfiction book of the 20th century … and then somehow the book, “an attack on empire, a defense of small nations, and an embrace of concrete delights over abstract causes,” passed its 75th anniversary with nary a notice, even from the International Rebecca West Society.
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Few Things You May Not Know About ‘The Scream’
For instance: “The U.S. Department of Energy proposed to use an image of the face at the nuclear waste repository in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to warn future explorers of radioactive waste.”
The British Actor Who Altered His Career – And The Narrative Around Gay Men – For One 1961 Film
“Before Victim, [Dick Bogarde] was ‘the idol of the Odeons,’ the biggest movie star in the land. But he willingly relinquished that status for Victim. Even more jolting than hearing the word ‘homosexual,’ must have been hearing Bogarde confess to Syms, ‘I wanted him!’ – a jolt of erotic passion even heterosexual movies of the era would avoid.”
Playwrights, Designers, And Even NYT Critics Are Trying To End ‘Theatrical Manspreading’
Laura Collins-Hughes: “The capacity to take women seriously is at the heart of all of this: the idea that we’re not an aberration but half the population, and just as human as the other half. It is ridiculous to me that the need for equal footing even has to be a discussion — that the inherent value of a theater that looks and sounds and feels like all of us should require defending.”
The Next Big Thing In Books: James Comey
Publishers started courting him, hard, as soon as he was fired by the current president, and especially after he leaked some memos. “Comey was reluctant at first to entertain offers, but he later decided that he had something to say beyond a rehashing of his career highlights and low points, according to his agent.”
Turkey Has Fired 7,000 More Civil Servants, Academics, And Even Police
“The announcement comes a day before the one-year anniversary of a failed coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the wake of the coup, around 150,000 officials have been dismissed from their posts and more than 50,000 people have been jailed.”
Confronting The Past Through Pop-Up Refugee Art
“Surprised that the tour guide was also a painter, Saskia Leefsma, one of the visitors in the group, asked, ‘Do you have a studio now?’ Mr. Mukasa admitted that no, this was the very first painting he’d made in a very long while because he had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Let’s Discuss The Sheer Genius Of Hamilton’s Music (No, Not The Lyrics – The Music)
Shut up, critics who can’t stop talking about how rap isn’t music. “Since rap’s natural language is the repeated loop, the critique of it can’t be that it uses inert repeated loops. We actually have to accept the loop as a given and to dig deeper to see if those loops are malleable enough for the artist to create thematic meaning. Miranda does not disappoint. Listening to the cast album reveals an entire world of sonic meaning.”
Martin Landau, Who Won An Oscar For Playing Bela Lugosi, Dies At 89
Of course, Landau also starred as Rollin Hand for several years in the original Mission: Impossible and the heroic villain of Crimes and Misdemeanors.
It’s Really Hard For People (Mostly, But Not All, Male) To Let Women Just Read
At least, it’s hard in the United States. In France, no such problem. “If you sit for many hours and look down at a book and then up at a city and then down at the book again, eventually the two blend into one, and there is no longer any difference between them. This is how the collapse between literature and life happens.”