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Review: The Cannibal of Guadalajara by David Winner (Gival Press, 2010). Don’t be let the lurid title fool you; it’s well-chosen, but not for the reasons you might think at first….
The Fall, a 2008 film directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Lee Pace and Catinca Untaru, explores the power of fantasy to impact reality and become inextricably tangled with the real world.
Discussed in this review: A Disappearing Number, Sweeney Todd, Company, A Little Night Music, Munch and Matisse, The Phantom of the Opera, and Shadow of the Wind.
Review: Far From Algiers by Djelloul Marbrook. A full half year ago now, I found myself dropped lightly and very unceremoniously in another part of the world. I saw my new city from the iced-over plane window: orange and terracotta browns in a circle of antiquity….
Early last April, I attended my great-uncle’s funeral. Other than that of my maternal grandmother, it was the first funeral that I had attended, and I wasn’t certain how to be a guest. My great-uncle was one of those people of whom I could conjure up certain, vivid images: throwing his head back and laughing, [...]