A Torn Land of Torn Hearts Lost in a Mist of Deception
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Michael Frayn's glorious study of the mutations of politics and the men who practice them fully translates its high aspirations to the stage, with sharp style and thrilling clarity.
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Hopeful thoughts, for those of us wriggling in the muck of love.
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Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.
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At first, second and final glance, Susan Minotâs âEveningâ doesnât seem as if it would translate easily to the big screen. It hasnât.
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Historical fiction is a difficult genre to get right. Neglect research and facts at your peril, because someone is sure to accuse you of dilettantism.
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Decades of war have made mourning an all too familiar ritual. Nowadays, however, the grieving often must be done in secret
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Iris Chang listened to stories of horror and suffering, absorbed them, and turned them into books. In the end, she may have cared too much.
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This strange, beautiful play by Jorge Ignacio CortiÃ±as is set in that hazy place between the person you are and the person you want to be, or could be, or are in danger of becoming.
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This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.
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Where âControlâ might have been literal-minded and sentimental, it is instead enigmatic and moving, much in the manner of Joy Divisionâs best songs.
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The Ukrainian presidential election and its aftermath have been marked by propaganda that is exposing old fractures in the former Soviet republic. Differences that are broadly defined by an east-west divide are bursting to the surface.
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Jia Zhang-ke's film of life in an amusement park is a quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail.
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In this age of âShrekâ and âEnchantedâ comes âThe City That Cried Wolf,â a theatrical take on fairy tales that conjures its own magic.
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People here seem bewildered by the enormity of what has happened to their country. Sri Lankan military officials say more than 12,000 people died on the island nation.
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You may be confused now, but you won't be when you finish reading.