Arts & Life

Adrien (Pierre Niney) and Anna (Paula Beer) share a graveside moment in Frantz.

Arts

A Unlikely Romance Blossoms, Rooted In A Secret: 'Frantz'

5:00pm March 16, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

French writer-director Francois Ozon adapts Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 melodrama about a mysterious Frenchman and a German war-widow in the aftermath of World War I.

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Vietnamese American Photographer An-My Le Selected For Whitney Biennial

4:43pm March 16, 2017

by Elizabeth Blair

Vietnamese American photographer An-My Le is one of 63 artists selected for this year's Whitney Biennial. Her new work was shot in Louisiana.

Bill Walsh died on Wednesday from complications of bile duct cancer. He worked at The Washington Post for 20 years as a copy editor.

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Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words

3:29pm March 16, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.

Miners favored the pasty due to its portable nature — a small meat pie that could easily be carried into the mines for 12-hour workdays.

In Michigan, The Pasty Isn't X-Rated. It's A Portable Pie With History Baked In

3:11pm March 16, 2017

by Erin Wisti

The lightly seasoned meat and veggie pie, prevalent in the Upper Peninsula, is pure fuel. Popularized by Cornish miners in the 1800s, it's come to symbolize tenacity in the face of trying conditions.

Trading Races, a new game by Kenyatta Forbes, asks players to talk about what it means to be black.

Arts

A New Card Game Asks, 'Who's Blacker?'

1:59pm March 16, 2017

by Leah Donnella

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?

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'Idiot' Chronicles First Love, Freshman Year And The Early Days Of Email

1:32pm March 16, 2017

New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman's new novel, The Idiot, follows a young woman's first year at Harvard University, and how she finds love through email.

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Life and Alien: Covenant (both 2017 films) are about astronauts who have disastrous encounters with extraterrestrials. Pictured: Katherine Waterston (left) in Alien: Covenant and Jake Gyllenhaal in Life.

Arts

Movie Twins? Weirdly Similar Films That Came Out Within Months Of Each Other

1:32pm March 16, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Hollywood isn't a big town; everyone knows what everyone else is doing. Still, rival studios often face off, refusing to blink, in movie showdowns that didn't need to happen.

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Emma Watson and Dan Stevens star in Disney's new live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

Composer Alan Menken On His Disney Tunes: 'I Prefer Them To Be Hum-able'

10:28am March 16, 2017

by Susan Stamberg

Menken scored The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas and many other Disney classics. He recently wrote three new songs for the live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

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Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor

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'Swimmer Among the Stars' Infuses Relics With Resonance

10:00am March 16, 2017

by Jason Heller

Kanishk Tharoor's collection of short stories explores the complicated relationship between language and technology. Tharoor's rich voice and immaculate craftsmanship both comfort and unnerve.

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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'Inexplicable Logic' Maps A Teen Boy's Complicated Mind

7:00am March 16, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life is as much a doorstopper as any young adult fantasy novel, but the world it builds is inside the head of teenaged Sal, who's struggling with difficult new emotions.