John Waters’ First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic, and Perverted. Surprised?

LIARMUTHA Bad Romanceby John Waters240 pages. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. $26. soon Trial for Gawker, Alexandra Tanner questioned why there are so many contemporary novels about “generations of women.” It is often marketed as “.Breathtaking or attractiveThe implicit promise of these books to their mostly female readers is that by reading them, they will understand …

‘Sundown’ Review: Trapped in Shallow Waters in Acapulco

Acapulco’s picturesque beauty and terrifying desperation converge in writer-director Michel Franco’s psychological thriller “Sundown.” Here, Franco reunites with Tim Roth, who plays Neil Bennett, heir to the UK meatpacking fortune who is on vacation with his sister Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and family. Cinematographer Yves Cape presents a steady stream of wide shots and abstract-leaning frames …

In ‘Desperate’ Reporter Dive Deep into Dirty Waters

The story of a decades-long lawsuit in West Virginia, described in Kris Maher’s “Hopeless”, Water crisis in Flint, Mich., but also a story about coal mining and the history of Appalachia. Mingo County residents complained that waste from a coal plant operated by a subsidiary of Massey Energy, the largest coal company in the state, …

Alice Waters Helps a Museum Serve Art Lovers’ Pleasures

LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, to its campus down the street, which it hopes will draw crowds back: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …

Alice Waters Helps a Museum Serve Art Lovers’ Pleasures

LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, which it hopes will draw crowds back to its campus down the street: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …