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[zhahn-ruh, zhahn-ruh] / ˈʒɑn rə, ˈʒɑ̃ rə /


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Appeared in the June 10, 2026, print edition as 'Unbound by Genre'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The company also established a partnership with filmmaker Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films production firm to find an unpublished manuscript that will get an 18-month option for $25,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

Country music has never been immune to the nation’s social and political forces, says Amanda Marie Martinez, author of the upcoming “Gone Country: How Nashville Transformed a Music Genre into a Lifestyle Brand.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Sabbagh’s work is included in an exhibition uptown, at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, titled “Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Genre and figure-painting were quite out of their line.

From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell




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