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"Brenda Chamberlain’s A Rope of Vines. I used to follow her ghost around. She was a writer and painter from Bangor in Wales. I’ve lived in some of her former homes and grew up in the village where she ran a radical printing press in the 1930s. This book is about her time living in Greece and has a particularly disturbing opening paragraph that sets the troubled tone for the rest of her book, and her life for that matter."

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Zac Clark recommended Tout va bien (1973) in Movies (curated)

Tout va bien (1973)

1973 | International, Drama, Documentary

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"I love this movie and its revisionist style and its radical politics, but most importantly there is no more punk-rock move in cinema history than having the opening credits be the checks that you’re writing to the cast and crew. Godard—the rich-kid film nerd to end all rich-kid film nerds—gets the machinations of the motion picture “industry” better than any of us. Contempt is masterful, Weekend is a lark, Tout va bien burns everything to the ground."

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Xavier Dolan recommended Beauty and the Beast (1946) in Movies (curated)

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

1946 | Fantasy, Romance

6.4

(5 Ratings)

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"Uh . . . 1946. How is this movie possible? All the steam, the fades, the technical effects that would be passé today were then revolutionary. And that is exactly what Cocteau was. Revolutionary. All the little smart creations: chandeliers held by arms through walls, the mirror’s powers, the pearls magnetically drawn to the hand, their flying at the end. Nineteen forty-six! Loving this film is probably a radical statement of sexual identity. I know that. Whatever. Nineteen forty-six. Yes, that is correct."

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High Cotton: A Novel

Darryl Pinckney

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An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Post-Truth in Books

Aug 8, 2017

Post-Truth

Matthew d'Ancona | 2017 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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Terrifyingly ominous, separating facts from fiction

Journalist Matthew D'Ancona does the arduous task of showing how to fight the current stream of fake news spouted by our current institutions. He is explicit in saying that this isn't the beginning of a radical idea, but something that has been building for some time, offering methods to combat the phenomena. It is deeply troubling how facts are pushed aside and myths are upheld by loud-mouthed establishments despite ample evidence to the contrary. An important read for current times.