Arts & Life

Ethan Hawke plays Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla in the playful new biopic, Tesla.

Arts

Wild And Daring, 'Tesla' Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Justin Chang

Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.

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Derek Amato became a musical savant after a traumatic accident.

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You 2.0: Fresh Starts

1:02pm August 21, 2020

Unpredictable things happen to us all the time. As part of our annual You 2.0 series on personal growth and reinvention, we revisit two of our favorite stories of loss and the change it brings.

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This 1895 portrait of Susan B. Anthony was painted by Carl Gutherz when Anthony was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a group dedicated to women's voting rights.

Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragist

4:39pm August 20, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

The director of the museum, Deborah L. Hughes, suggests that the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression and to advocate for human rights for all.

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, by Olivia Waite

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For August, 3 Love Interests Who'll Fight By Your Side

7:00am August 20, 2020

by Maya Rodale

This month, our romance columnist Maya Rodale rounds up three historical novels featuring heroines on a mission — and love interests who'll stand up for them, no matter what troubles come.

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume

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'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'

2:46pm August 19, 2020

by Dave Davies

Lesley M.M. Blume's new book tells the story of John Hersey, the young journalist whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons.

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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, by Ariel Sabar

'Veritas' Asks How A Respected Scholar Could Be Duped By A Bumbling Fraudster

2:18pm August 19, 2020

by Tom Gjelten

Author Ariel Sabar explores the lives of Harvard's Karen King and of Walter Fritz, the porn producer who convinced her the papyrus fragment he gave her — "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife" — was genuine.

A woman enters a public restroom with transparent walls in Tokyo's Shibuya ward. Architect Shigeru Ban designed the bathroom in a way to reassure anyone entering the toilet.

Transparent Public Toilets Unveiled In Tokyo Parks — But They Also Offer Privacy

1:46pm August 19, 2020

by Bill Chappell

"There are two things we worry about when entering a public restroom," an architect's firm says of the jewel-like toilets. "The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside."

The new documentary Coup 53 tells the backstory of the ouster of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's elected prime minister.

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'Coup 53' Tells The Story Of A 1953 Campaign By MI6 And The CIA To Oust Iran's Leader

11:17am August 19, 2020

by John Powers

A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.

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Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from Marriage Story. The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But Parasite, another popular award-winner, has not inclu

There's A Better Way To 'Dub' Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

8:57am August 19, 2020

by Jason Strother

Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. "Dubbing just tells us the dialogue," one disability rights activist explains.

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In Hanawalt's 'I Want You,' Youthful Yearnings And Anthropomorphic Anxieties

7:00am August 19, 2020

by Glen Weldon

Before working in TV animation (Bojack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie), Lisa Hanawalt chronicled her obsessions in a funny, filthy minicomic series that's been reprinted — with a wry update.