Tag: Fiction

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Oscars 2023

Todd Field’s Tár and the Validity of Ambiguity

Cait Blanchett stars in this experimental drama about a fictional conductor in (perhaps not ‘the’ but ‘a’?)…

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Starting off the Year with Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams (1987)

I needed a light and silly read to start off the new year, so I picked up…

Mexican Gothic
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Book Review: Mexican Gothic, Silvia-Moreno Garcia (2020)

Published in 2020, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a contemporary gothic horror novel. I was excited…

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Book Review: Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (2021)

It took me a long while to finish reading Detransition, Baby. I put it down and picked…

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Film Review: The Wonder (2022)

The Wonder, a slow and creeping psychological drama, just came out on Netflix a little bit ago….

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Book Review: Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman is a fantasy-fiction novel published in 1995 by Penguin. The story centres…

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Book Review: No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai (1948)

Content Warning: This review and book contain mentions of assault, sexual abuse, death, suicide, misogyny, misanthropy, and…

A red book near a candle and hourglass
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Book Review: East, West by Salman Rushdie (1998)

East West by Salman Rushdie is a short collection of fiction published in 1994. It centres the…