A Separation: A Film From Iran
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …
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Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …
“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …
Heron God
I wondered as I watched the great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so did …
Distant – a Film from Turkey
I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …
Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …
Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …