When Disney released “Frozen,” in 2013, “Let It Go,” the signature tune of Elsa, the movie’s unconventional heroine, was widely embraced as an anthem. Elsa is possessed of a secret regarded by others to be shameful and alarming: the ability Read More …
The Nobel Prize in Literature is broken. On Friday, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, announced that it will not name a laureate this year, a decision that results from a scandal within its ranks—a “sex abuse” scandal, as Read More …
Many American high schools resemble one another in their structures and their site plans, and so, when the first images of a school shooting circulate—so often, they are shaky panoramics beamed to us from local television stations’ traffic helicopters—they have Read More …
The most controversial ad that appeared this Super Bowl Sunday was for Dodge Ram, its crassitude suggesting the limits of the corporate benevolence frequently promoted during many commercial breaks this year. The car company chose to juxtapose an excerpt from Read More …
On the last night of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave an impassioned speech in which he imagined God asking him which historical period he’d most like to live in: “I would take my mental flight by Egypt and Read More …
In 1936, Walt Disney approached Beatrix Potter with a proposal: he wished to make an animated movie based on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” the classic children’s story, from 1902, with which she had begun her career. Potter’s biographers report Read More …
Click:软文发布 Two people fell in love, and we all showed up. On a glorious day in Windsor, a day when sunshine and happiness seemed to be in cahoots, millions of us watched, with some pleasant surprise, a wedding where Ben Read More …
“Westworld,” for all of its shiny, futuristic technology—its dazzling computer screens, whirring machinery, and clever robots—has been, through its second season, which ended on Sunday night, a show about guns, that simplest and cruellest of human tools. The characters are Read More …
On the third floor of the New York Public Library, off of a quiet, marble-tiled hallway, is the Berg Reading Room. Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is one of the literary-manuscript specialists in charge of the cache of artifacts, which includes a Read More …
The pianist Vicky Chow says that playing “Sonatra” is a “traumatic physical experience.” Composed by Michael Gordon, in 2004, and released on Cantaloupe Music, in two versions, one in normal tuning and one in unsettling just intonation, “Sonatra” is a Read More …