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★★★★★ It is a slippery task to evaluate the quality of a work that is so deeply embedded in its own genre. B-movies, guilty pleasures, perfect pop songs, that “so-bad-it’s-good” accolade that countless genre...
★★★★☆ With the Zika virus dominating the news, there is no more apropos time for Sonia Shah’s Pandemic to appear. Unfortunately, Zika is just the latest in a lengthening list of epidemics and pandemics...
★★★★☆ American musicals pervade our lives whether we attend them in a theatre or not. Songs have transitioned from their places in their shows into our daily life, often without our knowing their original...
★★★★☆ Chto, nachalos’? is the sinister question that hangs in the air in 1953 Russia, before Stalin’s final pogrom meant to answer the Jewish Question. Has it begun? Pochti chto is always the response....
★★★★☆ The strange present-day timeline of Samantha Hunt’s ghostly novel Mr. Splitfoot feels almost like a dystopian fantasy from a bygone era, the inconceivable future of smartphones and disconnection into which we all actually...
★★★★★ Consider it a question. What belongs to you, really? Are your experiences, memories, infidelities and embarrassments entirely your own? Private moments, of course, are yours to bottle up and bury. Keep them, but...
★★★★☆ “This is the story of the life and daydreams of Mevlut Karataş, a seller of boza and yogurt.” Thus begins A Strangeness in My Mind, the story of a 12-year old boy who...
★★★★★ The one Great Inevitability is that everyone dies. The end result is the same, but the manner in which one is allowed to take leave of this corporeal world makes all the difference...
★★★★☆ At its mouth the Amazon River is a gargantuan, powerful river, sending a plume of fresh water up to 120 miles wide more than 250 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Leave the mouth...
