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"Andrzej Wajda’s films had an enormous influence on me as I began writing and directing. I had lunch with him at the National Film Theatre in London, after he had just made Everything for Sale, a film I loved. It was Wajda’s tribute to Zbigniew Cybulski, his friend and the star of Ashes and Diamonds, who died young. In Ashes, Cybulski plays a resistance fighter stranded by a sellout peace. His broodiness and manner seemed to mourn James Dean."

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Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed

Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

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In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born...

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz and Olivia Laing

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I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief....

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

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Sarah Connor's son John Connor, now ten years old and living with foster parents, remains destined...

Time travel Brad Fiedel

Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis

Theodoros Chiotis

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Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international...

Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) shared own list

Nov 27, 2017

Music was full of fury, confusion and resistance in our first post-election year. Albums came with titles like American Dream (LCD Soundsystem), American Teen (Khalid) and All American Made (Margo Price).

But music in 2017 was also about a more slippery sense of self, as genre lines fall away and artists searched for identity and purpose in weird times.

So here's the best of a tumultuous year: