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Kama Sutra Mini Book

Sephera Giron

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Reawaken your desire by discovering the magic of Kama Sutra. Petite and portable, this new edition...

Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World

Hindol Sengupta

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There are more than one billion Hindus in the world but very little seems to be understood about...

Zadie Smith recommended High Windows in Books (curated)

"All of Larkin delights me, but this is a good book to start with. Larkin didn’t have great range, but the area he chose is so important it doesn’t matter. His deal is making you understand that death is a total and permanent annihilation. Not the nicest news a poet can give you, but still worth knowing. He likes you to believe that the thought of death prompts nothing else in him but despair. That’s not entirely true. Larkin was scared of infinity, but he was also capable of making infinity beautiful. ‘Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, / And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows / Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.’ And what a genius he was with compound phrases. Sun-comprehending!"

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Captain Phillips (2013)

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Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship...

Ernest Borgnine recommended Marty (1955) in Movies (curated)

Marty (1955)

1955 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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"I played Marty because I was Marty. I was the kind of guy that was a wall flower. I didn’t know how to dance. To get a girl — my goodness, that was beyond comprehension for me, because I could see myself being turned down and I wasn’t the kind of person that liked to be turned down, you know? Why bother to ask if you’re going to be turned down? So I never asked. That was it. But time went along and I went into the service, and I grew up. When I saw that script, I said, ‘My God, that’s me.’ I was very happy to do it, because it gave me the opportunity to play something that I could easily play, and I knew that I had in my heart exactly what happened."

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Alice Rohrwacher recommended La Cienaga (2001) in Movies (curated)

La Cienaga (2001)

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"I chose this one because of the feeling I get in sharing in a genius-like intelligence; it makes me understand how a viewer can participate in true genius. That gives me vertigo. This incredible intelligence is revealed by certain images and details so that it sparks your desire to look beyond, to look deeper, to follow certain signs. The other thing that is important for me in her films is the approach to fear. I don’t like movies that are scary in the sense that they introduce me to new fears I didn’t have before—I don’t like that at all. But Lucrecia’s movies help bring to the surface fears that were already in me, and by showing them to me, I am allowed to accept them and understand them and work on them."

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Kevin Smith recommended The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) in Movies (curated)

"I was raised Catholic and I still consider myself a fairly spiritual person even though I have a hard time identifying with most Christians in this country. But I still maintain a belief in God and in Jesus, and that gets tried on a daily basis. The older I get, the wiser I get, the tougher it is to believe in a divine power or whatnot. So that movie appeals to me on that level alone. To take it beyond, it’s just a fantastic Martin Scorsese picture. Great performances in it. The first portrayal of Christ where I was, “Wow, this might be what it was like.” He wasn’t a guy of all beatitude and perfection. He was a man, first and foremost, who just happened to be the son of God."

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