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To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a ...
Soprano Nina Stemme sung her 126th and final performance of Isolde in Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” with the Philadelphia ...
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It took author Madeleine Thien nearly a decade to write her new novel The Book of Records. In the story, 7-year-old Lina and her father take refuge at an imagined place called the Sea. There, ...
The store is run by Cooper (Logic), who — in a surprise move for a rapper in a film that he wrote for himself to star in — is ...
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...
“ [Series creator] Neil Druckmann has said that my music is part of the DNA of The Last of Us ,“ Santaolalla says. “I think ...
Under the damaged dome of al-Albani Mosque in Khan Younis, families stood on broken stone and dust, raising their voices in ...
Movie villains are some of the most interesting characters in a story. Not only do they drive the narrative forward, they add depth to the storyline and highlight the hero.
I recently rewatched Silence of the Lambs, my favorite film, for about the hundredth time. It’s a very tight movie, without a single unnecessary detail, so I ...
Half a century after Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” stirred fear and fascination by painting sharks as bloodthirsty monsters of ...
As horror films multiply and diversify, the label is collapsing under the weight of what it’s being asked to describe ...