The Mindful Cranks
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The Mindful Cranks broadly explores the cultural translation of Buddhism in the West, various...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Read an exclusive interview with the author here 100,000 years ago, at least six human species...
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
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Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing...
Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Magazine Work
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Beginning with the cover of a 1948 issue of Carnegie Tech's student magazine, Cano and ending with a...
Stitched Up: The Anti-capitalist Book of Fashion
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Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014 Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of...
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire and Jan Owen
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The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating...
Sentimental Education
Helen Constantine and Gustave Flaubert
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'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse...
White Noise
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'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster,...
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Manchurian Candidate (1962) in Movies
May 8, 2021
Sounds a bit like a Red Scare movie, but surprisingly apolitical: the main villain seems to be more fascist than communist, and even the Russian characters appear to have corrupted by American consumerism. Instead, the focus is more on character, and the damage done to people by their experiences in wartime. An intelligent and cynical movie, well-played for the most part, and with an astonishingly good turn from Angela Lansbury. Inevitably linked in the culture to the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers in the 1960s, but still feels remarkably un-dated.