Arts & Life

A Study In Contrasts: Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet) and Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne) in Cézanne et Moi.

Arts

A Painter, A Novelist And A Contentious Lifelong Friendship: 'Cézanne et Moi'

5:00pm March 30, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

It'll help to brush up on your Impressionists before seeing writer-director Danièle Thompson's decades-spanning portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, but the film deftly avoids biopic clichés.

Borne, Freed: Jessica Chastain as the lion-hearted Antonina Zabinski in The Zookeeper's Wife.

Arts

Caged By Its Noble Intentions: 'The Zookeeper's Wife'

5:00pm March 30, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

This historical drama, based on the story of a Warsaw couple who helped hundreds of Jews flee Nazi-occupied Poland, is more interested in their heroism than their humanity.

Highway to Hell (and Environs): Joan (Emma Roberts) hitches a fateful ride in The Blackcoat's Daughter.

Arts

Young Women Bedeviled By Darkness In Moody 'The Blackcoat's Daughter'

5:00pm March 30, 2017

by Scott Tobias

This impressive debut from director Osgood Perkins, about schoolgirls left at a Catholic school over winter break, "feels like a throat-clearing exercise for a horror prodigy," says our critic.

Despite Historic Mix-Up, PricewaterhouseCoopers Will Keep Its Oscars Job

3:38pm March 30, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says there'll be a few new safeguards following the Best Picture flub, including not allowing electronic devices backstage.

#ThanksForTyping began a conversation on the uncredited female labor in academia.

#ThanksForTyping Spotlights Unnamed Women In Literary Acknowledgments

3:33pm March 30, 2017

by Cecilia Mazanec

A professor shared book acknowledgment pages, where men thanked their wives for typing their manuscripts. #ThanksForTyping soon sparked a conversation on women and their uncredited roles in academia.

Ferris takes on real and imagined horrors in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

Books
Arts

In 'Monsters,' Graphic Novelist Emil Ferris Embraces The Darkness Within

1:58pm March 30, 2017

After West Nile virus left her paralyzed, the Chicago illustrator had to relearn how to draw. She says that experience was key to the publication of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

A group of students visits the Beirut mansion that architect Mona El Hallak is working to transform into a museum making sense of Lebanon's civil war.

In A Bullet-Riddled Mansion, A Beirut Architect Envisions A Museum Of Memory

12:39pm March 30, 2017

by Alice Fordham

Beirut is peaceful now, but political divisions still run deep — and people are still hesitant to look back on the civil war years of the 1970s and 1980s.

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(From left) Renee Chaney, visitor Louisa Parker, Linda Wertheimer and Kris Mortensen, in the first All Things Considered studio in 1972.

First Episode Of 'All Things Considered' Is Headed To Library Of Congress

7:49pm March 29, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The NPR program's inaugural 1971 broadcast has been added to the National Recording Registry, alongside other "aural treasures" like Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow." Take a listen to the first show!

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Arts

Hulu's 'Harlots' Follows Prostitutes In 18th Century London

5:14pm March 29, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Set in 18th century London, Hulu's new drama, Harlots, is about a group of women who work and live in brothels. The show is told from the point of view of the women and has an almost entirely female production team.

Cover detail of One of the Boys, by Daniel Magariel.

Books
Arts

'One Of The Boys' Tells The Story Of A Corrosive Father-Son Relationship

1:35pm March 29, 2017

by Maureen Corrigan

Daniel Magariel's debut novel explores the fierce love a 12-year-old boy has for his abusive father. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a "slim, deeply affecting and brutal story."

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