| No Images? Click here  Hey Culture Shift readers, we have great news! Our Culture Shift email will be joining forces with our Entertainment email so we can send you more arts, culture and entertainment stories five days a week. Our Entertainment Editor, Lauren Moraski, will send you exclusives, scoops, cultural context and the stories all of your friends are talking about starting on November 20. Not interested? Simply unsubscribe below. Otherwise, we’ll see you in your inbox again soon!  According to Merriam-Webster, since be- can denote both "to a greater degree" and "excessively or ostentatiously," belaud frequently has the connotations of unreasonable or undeserved praise.  The artwork has been hotly debated for years, but its sale signals one thing absolutely: a “very unequal, even obscene distribution of wealth in the world.”“As a colleague of mine said, ‘Nothing makes a Leonardo more than a hundred- million-dollar price tag,’” Stephen Campbell, an art history professor at Johns Hopkins University who focuses on Renaissance art, said. “The valuation works in reverse to justify the attribution.” Ultimately, Campbell said that he could accept the painting as a Leonardo, but he could not reconcile with its price. “It’s become a trophy, a market fetish. It’s being taken away from the interest of scholars,” he said.  Journalist Masha Gessen and novelist Jesmyn Ward were among the big winners Wednesday night as authors, publishers and literary benefactors gathered in New York City to celebrate the 68th National Book Awards ceremony. Actress Cynthia Nixon, who emceed the evening, spoke of the power of literature in the current political moment ― one she described as difficult for many, especially women, people of color and other marginalized groups. “To remain on the defensive in nearly every waking hour takes its toll,” she said. “For many of us, books provide a welcome escape into another world.” Literature can also, she said, provide “broadened perspective.” “They expose us to an experience we couldn’t imagine on our own. Books matter.” The winners were: 📚 Young People’s Literature: Far From the Tree by Robin Benway   During an interview with Gerwig last week, I asked the filmmaker to annotate seven references from “Lady Bird.” (Warning: This rundown contains an image of Playgirl magazine. Yes, there are penises in it.)Those references include:〰️ Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy 
 South Asian–American celebrities like Aziz Ansari, Hasan Minhaj, and Mindy Kaling have achieved remarkable success in recent years. They’ve played multidimensional characters, created their own shows and helped the nation understand all the struggles and joys of the immigrant experience. But there’s one character who is still hopelessly stuck in the past, when it was acceptable for Indians to be mocked and stereotyped on national television: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
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