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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. Marvel comics are known for their stylish drawings, bold colors, and dynamic splash pages, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has achieved incredible box office success utilizing expensive VFX, razor-sharp fight choreography, and a parade of recognizable faces. But how do you create […]
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If you were a straight guy in the late 2000s, you probably thought Jennifer’s Body was made for you. The movie’s poster featured Megan Fox, established by Transformers and numerous magazines as the “hot girl” of the moment, kicking back atop a school desk wearing a miniskirt and high heels. Shots of a nude Fox […]
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BIOGRAPHY, LIKE DOCUMENTARY, is necessarily an intervention in the lives of the writer’s chosen subject. The editorial process — which events to include, which contemporaries to interview — orders history according to the author’s own perspective and dramatic sensibilities. The pioneering performance artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti is doubtlessly familiar with the mythologizing work […]
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IN HIS NOVEL The House of Dr. Dee, set partly in London in the 1990s and partly in the same metropolis in the 1500s, Peter Ackroyd writes: “True books are filled with the power of the understanding which is the inheritance of the ages.” The late Polish poet Adam Zagajewski captures this sense of how […]
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This article contains spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. By the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and his superhero family have defeated Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors)—this version of him, anyway—restored freedom to the denizens of the Quantum Realm, and returned home safe and sound. But while Scott […]
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Later in life, Raquel Welch would occasionally acknowledge that Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974) provided her with the best reviews of her career. And it’s hard to argue. Prior to those successful, and slyly subversive, reworkings of Alexandre Dumas’ most famous novel, Welch was known as the sex symbol […]
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Looking for The Midnight Library book club questions for your next reading group meeting? Here are 15 thought-provoking discussion questions to get you guys going! The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a moving, emotional story about a woman on the cusp of taking her own life. Nora Seed is lonely and struggling with depression. …
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Looking for The Vanishing Half book club questions for your next reading group meeting? Here are 15 thought-provoking discussion questions to get you guys going! The Vanishing Half, the 2020 novel by author Brit Bennett, is a beautiful story about twin sisters, Stella and Desiree, growing up in a small black community in Louisiana. When …
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Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with Ann Goldstein, whose most recent translated work is “Forbidden Notebook” by Alba de Céspedes.
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IF YOU’RE A FAN of contemporary Czech fiction but don’t actually speak Czech, it’s likely that you already know the name Alex Zucker. While Zucker has translated pretty much anything you can imagine being translated, from plays to children’s books, poetry, essays, song lyrics, and even an opera, it’s his work with post-1989 Czech fiction […]
The post Itʼs Just Pourin Outta Me: On Jáchym Topol’s “A Sensitive Person” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books….