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Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s ‘Girl Stunt Reporters’ by Kim Todd reviewed
Books & Arts
I’m turning Japanese
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
School of hard Knox
As Amanda Knox walks listeners through the day of her arrest, it’s apparent she is still upset
Berlin has always been a Faustian metropolis
A new history of east and west, best and worst
Is Sohrab Ahmari a Satanic ogre?
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari reviewed
Cousteau was the boulevardier of the oceans
For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
Korean film has mastered the supernatural horror genre
For those of us who have followed Korean film for many years, the triumph of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden or the living-dead series Kingdom on Netflix came as no surprise
A film festival fiasco in Narrowsburg, New York
Castellano and Castaldo descended upon Narrowsburg with a gust of wind, declaring that they would open an acting school, start a film festival and make it ‘the Sundance of the East’