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鈥榃riting With Fire鈥�: Film captures resolve of female journalists in IndiaOscar-nominated documentary 鈥淲riting With Fire鈥� shows how a team of reporters overcomes caste and gender biases to bring light and justice to India.
Letter from the diaspora: Why Ukraine will endureUkraine 鈥� and its culture, its history 鈥� lives in the hearts and minds of people like my grandparents, my parents. And now it lives in me.
Oscar is only a start: A world of best performances from the past yearAhead of the Oscars ceremony on Sunday, the Monitor鈥檚 film critic shares his choices for the performances that transported audiences in the past year.
In a WordWhat makes learning a new language hard?Unfamiliar grammar and writing systems throw curveballs to those of us used to the rules and contours of English, our language columnist writes.
In Pixar鈥檚 鈥楾urning Red,鈥� a panda and puberty steal the showThe latest Pixar film, 鈥淭urning Red,鈥� covers familiar ground in the exploration of identity, but also experiments with more directly addressing puberty.- In Pixar鈥檚 鈥楾urning Red,鈥� a panda and puberty steal the showThe latest Pixar film, 鈥淭urning Red,鈥� covers familiar ground in the exploration of identity, but also experiments with more directly addressing puberty.
In a WordWhat is the hardest language for English speakers?Access is important. Are there materials online, or do you have to raft down the Maici River in Brazil hoping someone will teach you Pirah茫?
There is no ping without a pongIt takes two willing partners to play table tennis, after all, and two people with an equal stake in each other鈥檚 happiness to make a marriage.聽
First LookBest movies of 2021? British 'Oscars' offer a sneak preview.The聽British Academy Film Awards gave the best picture prize to the western 鈥淭he Power of the Dog." The sci-fi epic 鈥淒une鈥� won five awards.
First LookHow the Gilded Age launched America's architectural Renaissance聽鈥淭he Gilded Age,鈥� the new HBO series from Julian Fellowes, offers insight into a late 19th-century architectural movement in North America that聽gave New York City some of its most iconic monuments.
Time travel + Ryan Reynolds = Fairly fun 鈥楾he Adam Project鈥�鈥淭he Adam Project鈥� draws on its sci-fi predecessors and the charm of its leading man to take viewers on a mostly entertaining ride.聽
For this family recipe, too many cooks were just enoughEvery time I make my vegetable beef soup, I鈥檓 reminded of the people who inspired each additional ingredient I鈥檝e added to it over the years.
Burger shaming is out: Coaxing carnivores to climate-conscious eatingWant people to eat more veggies? Watch your words.聽A study about meal choices in restaurants recommends welcoming carnivores into the plant-based fold.聽
In a WordWhy have so many 鈥榖ad鈥� words gone good?Awe-inspiring Black jazz musicians were "bad." Surfers throw out compliments like "sick" and "gnarly." This inversion is called amelioration.
Overcast, but not downcastAfter any random social gathering we end up with an umbrella or two. They belong to the newcomers, freshly arrived in the Pacific Northwest.
Religious leaders preach radical hospitality 鈥� even after church shootingsReligious leaders forge fresh thinking to counter fear in the wake of church violence: Open-armed welcome is as practical as security measures.
鈥楾he Batman鈥�: Gritty storytelling propels latest Gotham caperBatman鈥檚 many incarnations range from campy caped crusader to dark knight. Does the latest, brooding version offer something new?聽
To learn to skate, you must learn to get up again 鈥� even 10 years laterInspired by Olympians, our essayist first learned to skate at 8 years old. Years later, she鈥檚 learning anew how to get back up after a fall.
In a Word鈥楽tereotype鈥� and other words from printers鈥� lingoThe printing press not only transformed the business of the written word, but gave English new words altogether, our language columnist writes.
Oscar hopeful 鈥楲unana鈥�: A yak, a classroom, and a transformative journeyIn the Oscar-nominated international film 鈥淟unana,鈥� from Bhutan, a teacher鈥檚 unexpected assignment offers him life-changing vistas.
