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[ad_1] Juliet Bashore’s “Kamikaze Hearts” is a porn world semi-documentary about San Francisco’s spit and cold sweat underground scene in the 1980s. Originally released in 1986, it is now receiving a national rollout courtesy of a new 2K restoration. A prism of ideas about performance, gender, identity, addiction, labor and much more, the movie also …
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[ad_1] Last fall, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson was asked to predict what the world would look like in 2050. He was speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and the atmosphere at the summit was described as “last, best”. “hope to save the planet” – it was bleak. But Robinson, …
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[ad_1] Subscriber: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer | How to Listen by Hernan Diaz second novel, “Trust” four books in one. Our critic, Michael Gorra, describes it as “complex, cunning, and constantly puzzling.” It begins with a novel within a novel about a man named Benjamin Rask, who builds and maintains a fortune in …
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[ad_1] “BAD ACTORS” (Soho Crime, 341 p., $27.95)Mick Herron’s newest Slough House spy novel has finally arrived. For those who haven’t gotten into this series yet, Slough House is the “end of the pier, the bit where Regent’s Park sends the failures”, where “the stars of the British security service live on afterward. from professional …
[ad_1] What childhood prompted Jer to become a soldier? His mother, Nancy, will explain this in the next chapter of the novel, set in 1911. Born on an island off the southwest coast, he fled to the mainland when the great famine left him orphaned. With the hard-won wisdom of old age, she looks at …
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[ad_1] The majestic Gong Li anchors a mysterious and often mysterious tale of intrigue in Chinese director Lou Ye’s latest feature film, “Saturday Fiction.” As in films like “Summer Palace” and “Purple Butterfly,” Lou places a Hitchcockian tension of identity and passion at the zenith of major historical events, although personal and political dramas collide …
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[ad_1] Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer | How to Listen While the disturbing news continues to come from Ukraine, new fiction works highlight how lives there have been transformed by conflict. In this week’s podcast, critic Jennifer Wilson talks about two books, including Yevgenia Belorusets’ short story collection “Lucky Breaks,” translated by Eugene …
[ad_1] Sharp, beautifully written, and dotted with sarcastic, slashed edges, “Tell Me an End” is one of the most sophisticated works of science fiction I’ve read in recent times. With or without memories, it’s filled with sensitive portraits of people who are bitter, jealous, anxious, reticent – who are not admirable or wonderful in nature …
[ad_1] In his new novel, “Grey Bees,” Kurkov has beetles with hive heads to explain where he thinks humanity has gone wrong. The book is about a beekeeper named Sergey Sergeyich, who lives in the “grey zone” of Donbas between areas controlled by the Ukrainian military and areas held by Russian-backed separatists. (Interestingly, Gogol’s groundbreaking …
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[ad_1] Simone St. A terrible wave of fear flows through James’ house. BOOK OF COLD CASE (Berkley, 341 p., $27), and not because of the ghostly presence coming in and out of the narrative. Shea Collins – receptionist by day, true crime blogger by night – has long been obsessed with Beth Greer, who as …
[ad_1] Another reason writers are drawn to anthropomorphized animals is their absurdity. When readers accept the reality of talking animals, what else will they buy? In Matt Phelan’s fast-paced “The Sheep, the Rooster and the Duck,” the answer is: three 18th-century French animal aviators, who are also the world’s most extraordinary secret agents. The premise, …
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[ad_1] “There was a saying among these people: The dry year frightens you, the wet year kills you.” This constant sense of dread permeates Dane Bahr’s evocative debut. HOUSEBOAT (Counterpoint, 242 pp., $26), Oscar describes a particularly choppy year in Iowa—a year in which the Mississippi River town turned on its own when the weather …