by Editor | Jun 7, 2023 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Los Angeles
from The Los Angeles Times via MSN Editorial: A Hollywood mess: Writers are striking, and actors may too, over the future of the industry Opinion by The Times Editorial Board Screen Actors Guild members take part in a Writers Guild rally May 22 outside Warner Bros....
by Editor | Jun 3, 2023 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The New York Times Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large by Maureen Dowd By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of...
by Editor | May 14, 2023 | Literary News
from Real Clear Books Surviving Hyperculture By Emina Melonic Does the term “culture” even mean anything, given humanity’s turn away from particularity and toward a more fluid world of never-ending change? Philosopher Byung-Chul Han, known for his treatise-like...
by Editor | May 8, 2023 | Literary News
from Real Clear Books Leo Tolstoy the Free Thinker: Yet Another ‘New’ Look at ‘War and Peace’ By John Tamny For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the...
by Editor | May 2, 2023 | Literary News
from The New Yorker Why Are TV Writers So Miserable? On the cusp of a potential strike, writers explain why no one is having much fun making television anymore. By Michael Schulman For people outside the industry, the woes of TV writers can elicit a boo-hoo response....
by Editor | Apr 28, 2023 | Literary News
from France 24 One of world’s oldest newspapers to end daily print run The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily. Founded in 1703 under the name...
