People & culture
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Let’s Search for America’s Hairiest Legend with American Myt…
[ad_1] A novel about Bigfoot, you say? Sign me up immediately! American Mythology by Giano Cromley is a heartfelt, multifaceted adult debut novel that invites readers into the strange world of the “Basic Bigfoot Society”. Set in the rugged landscape of western Montana, American Mythology follows Jute & Vergil, lifelong friends who share an affinity…
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The World’s Oldest Cookbook: Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes…
[ad_1] If asked about your favorite dish, you’d do well to name something exotic. Gone are the days when a taste for the likes of Italian, Mexican, or Chinese cuisine could qualify you as an adventurous eater. Even expeditions to the very edges of the menus at Peruvian, Ethiopian, or Laotian restaurants, say, would be…
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How Japanese anime songs became Gen Z’s latest musical obses…
[ad_1] Japanese animation, or anime, has a legacy that stretches back to the early 20th Century, and a creative scope that spans seemingly endless stories and styles, from pirate sagas to sci-fi warfare; sorcery to sports action; martial arts mythology to star-crossed romance. The music used to soundtrack it is similarly adventurous. Songs vary significantly…
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Seeds of another world | Eurozine
[ad_1] Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is the American Right really wants. The tendency is to look to the leadership for clues. Who belongs to the inner circle, really? What do they believe in? Are they globalists, isolationists, neoliberals, fascists? What…
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Free League Announces Release Dates For The One Ring And Lor…
[ad_1] Today, Free League Publishing announced the official release date for the new Starter Sets for both The One Ring and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E. On July 31, would-be wanderers can pick up their Starter Sets in person at Gen Con 2025 at the Free League booth, or order online through the Free League webshop. The new…
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30 Best Movies Set in Italy to Watch Before Visiting
[ad_1] Out of all the movies set in Italy’s Rome, Bicycle Thieves is probably the most captivating ones that will leave your heart aching for days. Besides it being among Leonardo Di Caprio’s favorite movies, it has a lot to learn from. Now, we get to see it from the other side, where Antonio Ricci…
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Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangle…
[ad_1] In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939–40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted the Boston Symphony and, on one famous occasion, he decided to conduct…
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How Superman started out as a radical rebel
[ad_1] All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to force the authorities to build better housing (a risky strategy, that one). In another, he takes on the city’s gambling industry because it is bankrupting addicts. And in another,…
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Not epistemic enough to be discussed
[ad_1] The following text is a chapter from Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious (2025), a publication that summarizes and documents a public programme of the same name from the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. academia will talk about decolonization it will talk about it all the time…
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Why The Music of Severance Sounds So Beautifully Unique
[ad_1] A look at what “temp music” is, and why it is so important that Severance refused to use it. In several interviews, Theodore Shapiro (the music composer for Severance) has mentioned that he wrote a huge library of music for the show prior to the editing process to prevent the need for “temp music”.…