People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit…
For Buffett, escapism was not merely some fiddling flight of fancy. It acknowledged the brutalities and indignities of everyday…
The genre has long been viewed as too exclusive, too expensive and too stuffy. Thanks to video games, that’s starting…
Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase…
Iranian artists are showing renewed determination to promote freedom as a cultural necessity in Iran, even in the face of…
From the pre-Roe years to today, country musicians have written about the realities of life with restrictions on reproductive…
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained…
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period…
Language, geography, age and other factors can all affect how fast a person talks. But sometimes, these perceived differences…
‘Performances of virility’ tend to coincide with beliefs that masculinity is either in crisis or under attack.
Oppenheimer’s knowledge of Sanskrit literature was more than cursory. He used quotes and parables from Sanskrit texts…
AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music…
On Aug. 11, 1973, a block party in the Bronx spawned a genre that would go on to influence nearly all aspects of US culture…
By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new…
Over the past 60 years, the duration of flights has remained roughly the same, while passengers have been subjected to more…
Afrofuturism, a mix of science fiction, magic realism and liberation politics, has shaped some hip-hop artists’ work for…
The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing…
What would you do if the industry you work in could clone your skills, style and even the way you look and sound?
A scholar explains how a concept that appeared in Nation of Islam literature nearly a century ago essentially defines hip-hop’s…