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There are some very obvious conclusions to draw here. It is the humanity, in The Death of Jesus, that makes it poignant, known but unknowable, and extraordinary. ¤ Will Forrester is a writer and critic based in London. M. But this is all tongue-in-cheek; one virtue of older Coetzee is his urge to be amusing.
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Indeed, the second episode of the Netflix show recreates, nearly shot-for-shot, the opening sequence of John Huston’s Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), in which Montgomery Clift played Freud and which is easily the best filmed version of Freud’s life. In order to prove her paralytic symptoms are genuine — if of non-organic origin — Freud
Was that a conscious decision? Even in countries that are democratic-socialist democracies, their cultures can be just as homogenized. There’s an eerie Richard Prince painting on the cover of Sonic Youth’s 2004 album Sonic Nurse that features a nurse, whose face is partially obscured by a surgical mask — the kind everyone is now wearing
Do you translate ghirbīb the same way both times? Rachel Schine is a scholar of pre-modern Arabic literature. 1273), a scholar of the Qur’ān who hails, per his name, from Cordoba, and who witnessed his home city’s capture by Ferdinand III of Castile in his lifetime. First, the line by Imru’ ul-Qays: العين طامحة
After four brain surgeries over five months, Radwa returns to Egypt fit and finally able to visit Tahrir Square, which she does on 26 May, incidentally coinciding with her birthday. The novel interleaves the story of Granada during the time of Christopher Columbus — a time of extreme religious persecution — but is also a
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A black swan would do the same to higher education that it would to the rest of our society: highlight all the cracks, holes, weak joints, and moldy patches. Maybe I’m a Luddite. It is an austere future of “sacrificial strategies, costly yet aimed at saving something from what could well be a catastrophe.” But
Continue reading Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19
TV wants faster worldbuilding, so the first episode needed to introduce the world of the train and follow the A story of Layton [Daveed Diggs]. A lot of it wasn’t really germane, but it was interesting. They fulfill the charge from Rochette that we’re to look for a better future. Yeah, you can imagine TNT
Continue reading The Television is the Night Car: An Interview with Graeme Manson about Snowpiercer
I’d like to think that Critchley is after a book akin to Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts, a collection of loosely related vignettes, which cast light and shadow, in exactly the right proportion, on the ambiguous nature of the creative life. In Critchley’s words, Antigone’s story “doesn’t mean that we are somehow free of the
12 Forgave her O God. 15 Keep away from her Those who put the lamb to the wolf’s mouth And the sparrow in the owl’s nest And those who contaminate the spring water. And finally, In my paper ships I have crossed this marsh And arrived at the bank in
Continue reading Lock-in Literature: ‘A Primitive Prayer for Uruk’
What types of electronic surveillance is The Bail Project seeing employed instead of cash bail? What reforms protecting due process rights have been enacted in New York State? We have provided free bail assistance in more than 20 cities, and time and time again our clients come back to court — not because they have
Continue reading Justice After Bail Reform: A Conversation with Robin Steinberg
Teachers are people who, when they were students, did whatever a teacher asked; it’s a hard lesson to learn that obedience is a different thing than taste. Increasingly, I think what we were looking for in the book, maybe even the name, was not gesturing forward at the expectation of having a child but reminding
I did it one time for one or two hours. In the 1980s, he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became a conservative Republican. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Guernica, Salon, Boom California, and CrimeReads, among many other publications. He wasn’t a revolutionary in the
Sunday Submissions: Theatre Translator Mentorship The deadline for applications to the Foreign Affairs’ Theatre Translator Mentorship have been extended until June 4: From a 2017 in-person workshop. The program, they write, “is based on our approach to working with translated play texts and our experiences of bringing world drama from ‘page to stage’ over nearly
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Memmi was expelled and sent to a forced labor camp in eastern Tunisia. On serait tenté de dire un écrivain.” That is probably the best way to think about Memmi, as a writer “In Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno writes that “to those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home.” I really think Albert
Continue reading Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99
Since the making of Schindler’s List more than a quarter century ago, the USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, at the initiative of Steven Spielberg, has collected roughly 55,000 video testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust from around the globe and, to a much more limited degree, from survivors of other genocides. I
I love your question, because it captures what actually happens in a traditional Romanian restaurant. You talk of “old Bucharest, with traditional urban houses and two storey buildings from the 19th century, cobbled streets, overflowing fruit orchards and hanging grape vines. Writing about food while being right in the middle of one of the most
Continue reading Celebrate with a Feast: A Conversation with Irina Georgescu
More difficult to pick up right now was Aziz Binebine’s Tazmamort récit, a prison memoir that recently appeared in English as Tazmamart, translated by Lulu Norman. Ursula had enjoyed Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi, a classic of Italian literature that recounts a 17th century plague in Milan, while MLQ found
And say to those who claim they’re wise: You’ve learned a thing or two by heart But the things that count you’ll never know. Tom Abi Samra’s Twitter account got hacked by an angsty teenager, who did the translation this week: * this thing’s a pharmakon: stop scolding me for it (even though
Those early promos came with little fanfare — no cover art, no liner notes, just a plain center sticker with the group’s name, song title, and record label logo. In the two years between releasing Juvenile Hell and The Infamous, Mobb Deep seemed to have aged a full decade. II” and its associated album The
Continue reading Giving Up the Goods: Mobb Deep’s “The Infamous” Turns 25
You’d be waiting to see how it ended, what happened to this person or that person. Next up: Whitesnake in the bathroom down the hall. She gets it done, too. “But that is.” 9. A. It would be like going to a movie. It taps into the occult side of Los Angeles: the way that