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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Lost in the Labyrinths of the Mind: Backrooms

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Chiwetel Ejiofor in Kane Parson's Backrooms . (Photo: A24 Pictures.) Kane Parsons’s Backrooms is some very clever filmmaking. The eleva...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Object Lessons: Videotape

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(Bloomsbury Books.) “Objects have the longest memories of all. Beneath their stillness, they are alive with all the experiences they have ev...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

No Business Like Show Business: When Playwrights Kill

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Beth Leavel and Marissa Jaret Winokur in When Playwrights Kill . (Photo: Jim Sabitus.) When Playwrights Kill is a comedy à clef whose code...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Life of Katherine Mansfield

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(Reaktion Books, University of Chicago Press) “Books are the mirrors of the soul. If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot te...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Grief and The Goshawk: H Is for Hawk and Other Recent Movies

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Claire Foy in H Is for Hawk . (Photo: Roadside Pictures.) Among the books I brought with me on a trip at the end of my semester break this y...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Imaging Irony: Without Empathy / 8 Filmmakers

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(Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.) “Censorship is the mother of all metaphor.” Jorge Luis Borges It’s always heartening to encou...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Urgency and Grace: The National Ballet’s Flight Pattern and Suite en blanc

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The National Ballet of Canada company in  Flight Pattern . (Photo: Ted Belton.) The National Ballet of Canada opens its 2026 winter season w...