Posts Tagged with ‘Review’
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Talking Turkey: Two Films
06 Feb 2012I 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
23 Jan 2012Three 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
20 Jan 2012I’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
09 Jan 2012I’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
06 Jan 2012A 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
29 Dec 2011All 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
29 Dec 2011I 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
21 Dec 2011I’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
17 Dec 2011The 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
14 Oct 2011David 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
24 Sep 2011If 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
21 Sep 2011Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men,…
