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What Shawn Levy learned from ‘All the Light We Cannot See’

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A man in a dark coat and hat crouches to speak with a young girl in a red sweater holding a cane

Amid the bombed-out streets of a picturesque French village, blind teenager Marie-Laure, her kindly poppa, an agoraphobic resistance fighter, a young German soldier and one sadistic Nazi cross paths in the sprawling World War II […]

USC poet, professor Jackie Wang discusses AI’s impact on writers

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A woman with dark hair in a tank top and sheer sleeves stands in front of pink and teal items on shelves.

Two major forces, distinct but not unrelated, are causing turmoil for writers: massive labor struggles and accelerating advancements in artificial intelligence. On the labor front, streaming businesses like Netflix have robbed TV writers of residuals; […]

How ‘The Zone of Interest’ scorer Mica Levi finds new sounds

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Once upon a time, Mica Levi said hello to the world through the hose of a vacuum cleaner. As a founder of the English pop group Micachu and the Shapes, Levi strummed a tiny, detuned […]

Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous roots questioned

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Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie's Indigenous roots questioned

Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots. A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter […]

Aisha Harris’ ‘Wannabe’ muses on the pop culture that shaped her

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The cover of Aisha Harris' "Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me"

“It’s nearly impossible to escape this world untouched by pop culture: moviegoing, TV watching, music listening,” writes pop culture critic Aisha Harris in the introduction to her book, “Wannabe.” “It doesn’t all just happen to […]