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Talking Turkey: Two Films

2/6/2012

I admit it.  I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …

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Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey

1/23/2012

Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …

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“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading

1/20/2012

I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking,  terrible, memoir,  Night,  this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …

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Distant – a Film from Turkey

1/9/2012

I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …

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Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti

1/6/2012

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 …

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In The Garden of Beasts — a Review

12/29/2011

All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and  Germany’s becoming  the vicious murderer of its …

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy– A Short Take

12/29/2011

I was not alone in the crowds the other night exiting Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy wondering what it the heck we had missed.  …

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“Shame” – A Real Shame

12/21/2011

I’m going to save you $10 and two hours of your life right here.  The movie Shame, with deep pretense …

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The Girl in the Cafe — A Short Take

12/17/2011

The Girl in the Cafe is one  of those wonderful, little-heard of films that you nearly click away from, the …

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Götz and Meyer: A Serbian Tale of the Holocaust

10/14/2011

David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is simultaneously a story of horror and shame, and an amazing feat of language and …

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To End All Wars: Adam Hochschild

9/24/2011

If you’ve ever stood a picket line, leafleted about an unpopular cause,  been arrested for civil disobedience, fought and lost against the powerful, …

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Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar

9/21/2011

Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance,  easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …

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