“For more than a decade, the Turkish director … has been reliably bringing a movie to the Cannes Film Festival every time he had a new one [Distant, Climates, Three Monkeys, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia] … at intervals of about every three years. He won at least one prize each time out.” This year, with Winter Sleep, he’s reached the summit.
Tag: 05.25.14
Keep Spinoza Excommunicated!
For almost 90 years, fans of the philosopher have been agitating for his 1656 expulsion from the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam to be overturned. When that community’s leaders considered undoing that decree in 2012, they asked Spinoza scholar Steven Nadler for advice. He told them “there were no good historical or legal reasons for lifting the ban, and rather good reasons against lifting it.” Here, he explains why.
Next Big Data Crunching Target? How You Buy Books
“The Next Big Book’s dashboard, which Macmillan plans to give to its employees and authors over the next few months, allows the publishing company to see what factors — from Facebook posts to book reviews to appearances on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ — are most influential on sales.”
British Exams Drop ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ ‘Of Mice and Men’ From Syllabus
“The decision to drop the works by the US authors was because of the Department for Education’s desire for the exam to be more ‘more focused on tradition’ and there were fewer opportunities to include them in the new syllabus.”
Turns Out Actor Jeff Goldblum Has A Jazz Band That Plays In Los Angeles
“When he’s not busy, he’ll get his band together for the very loose, improvised three-hour show at an L.A. club called Rockwell. ‘So we have a kind of hootenanny, or be-in, or some kind of a jam session is what they call it,’ Goldblum says, ‘and people seem to enjoy it.'”
Top AJBlogs Posts From 05.25.14
Kara Walker Tangent: All roads lead to Mammy’s Kitchen
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds | Published 2014-05-25
In My Dreams
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-05-25
Balanchine and Massine at American Ballet Theatre
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-05-24
Art Critic Kenneth Clark: Savior or Snob?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-23
Just How Bad is Amazon? A New Backlash
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-23
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Want To Binge-Watch Faster? Now You Can
“It might take some time getting used to it, but it’s like you earn ‘extra free time’ to do other activities.”