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Distant Voices, Still Lives

Paul Farley

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Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant...

Ghosts: In an English Version

Henrik Ibsen and Frank McGuinness

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Oswald, standing in the doorway then, the pipe in his mouth, it was as if I saw his father alive...

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

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Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) finds...

Elif Shafak recommended The Captive Mind in Books (curated)

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz | 2001 | History & Politics

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"Much has been written about authoritarianism and its multiple manifestations, but little has been said about the ways in which people, even the most educated, seemingly open-minded people, internalise authoritarianism in their daily life. What happens to politics and politicians under a corrupt system is obvious. But what happens to a society and a culture under authoritarianism is a question less understood. The Polish poet, essayist and thinker Milosz wrote extensively about home, homeland, exile, memory, history…. As a writer who comes from a turbulent land of collective amnesia, I have always read him with a sense of affinity."

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Neneh Cherry recommended Down These Mean Streets in Books (curated)

Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas | 1997 | Biography, Gender Studies

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"New York is where I go in my head a lot when I’m writing. I have deep imprints of the city in my backbone: sounds, smells, music, pizza parlors, Chelsea Hotel, TV, fire hydrants oozing, the Lower East Side, people everywhere living their lives inside-out, on top, and through each other… maybe there is something even more in the memories old New York in the ‘70s—unpolished, unclean, lived in. It’s all there in this coming of age story of a young Puerto Rican boy/man. I feel this story all around in my memory bank."

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