The Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize ” is open to scholars and popular historians, and comes at a moment when military history has a divided audience and identity.”
Tag: 06.12.13
Pay Your Interns, Judge Orders Hollywood Studio
“A Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated federal and New York state minimum wage laws by not paying production interns who, Judge William H. Pauley III said, were effectively regular employees on the set of Black Swan.”
The Most Dire Scenario Yet For England’s Arts Funding
“More than four-fifths of English subsidised arts companies could lose their funding completely, the Arts Council has warned, after it modelled the effect of potential government cuts to the culture budget.”
Here’s One Way David Mamet Is Like Arthur Miller And Tennessee Williams
“[He] has now had six critical and/or box-office disappointments in a row. So what has happened to Mamet? In one sense, he is indeed carrying on a great tradition: late-period collapse.”
The Dozens Of Deaths Of Yoram Kaniuk
Nicole Krauss: “He used to say that in 1941, he was killed by the Einsatzgruppen in Ternopil, Ukraine, even though he was eleven at the time, and busy eating sour cream on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. When he was seventeen, he volunteered for the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, fought bloody battles for Israel’s independence in the Judean hills, was shot in the leg, and died in the arms of a nun who quoted the second century rabbi Ben-Azzai in Germanic Hebrew.”
Massive Remaking Of The Way China Looks
“All over China, planners are busy emptying the countryside of people, leveling villages, and replacing the small-plot agriculture that defined rural parts of the country for millennia with American-style industrial agriculture. Urban areas, meanwhile, have lost most of their distinctive characteristics.”