arts and culture
The year in global streaming: Welcome to the Om(n)i(cron)verse
December 22, 2021The need to produce constant weekly product to match streaming competitors reached a level of frenzy this year.
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A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
December 7, 2021Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
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Sally Rooney: In search of the Marxist novel
December 6, 2021In Rooney’s work, the political manifests itself in the depiction of alienated relationships alongside explicit political statements.
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