Culture
Plains, trains and automobiles: ‘Snowpiercer’ vs. ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
June 28, 2022How can we contrast Snowpiercer’s people’s transport vs. Lincoln Lawyer’s luxuriating while the planet burns?
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Peter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
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‘Dark Winds’: Solving an American mystery
June 27, 2022Sharp writing and strong acting keep Dark Winds from the tired soap opera that recent neo-Westerns like the popular Yellowstone saga became mired in.
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‘Kinderland’: A documentary visit to two century-old secular Jewish summer camps
June 24, 2022The film short Kinderland tells the story of two camps in upstate New York that have cultivated social activists for almost a century and are still in existence today.
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Meet Juan Guaidó: Capra’s Depression-era comedy replayed as imperial farce
June 23, 2022The scenario in Frank Capra's 1941 classic 'Meet John Doe' started replaying a few years ago as the U.S. anointed from nowhere and utterly out of the blue their Latin American John Doe, Juan Guaidó.
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