Come True

Do not adjust your television set. The opening moments of—as well as various sequences throughout—Anthony Scott Burns’ unsettling if not thematically foggy sci-fi/thriller "Come True" will be jumpy and blurry, and that’s by design. During some of those inventively atmospheric scenes (which should come with a warning for the epileptic), you will be inside the mind of the deeply asleep Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone), a high school student so starved for a few peaceful nights of slumber that she jump...

Whose Planet Is It Anyway?

The twelfth edition of the Taipei Biennial, "You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet," co-organized by French philosopher Bruno Latour and Paris-based curator Martin Guinard, reflects the fracturing of our global imaginary in the face of accelerating climate change. Drawing on the work of numerous scientists and other experts, the duo offers four curatorial sections that represent, in effect, four types of people: those who maintain their faith in globalization; those who want to retreat into...

Phantom Tollbooth Is the Perfect Journey for a Sensitive Kid

‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Is the Perfect Journey for a Sensitive Kid Norton Juster’s classic novel isn’t about good versus evil, but reason, emotion and self-discovery Although celebrated as an author, Norton Juster — who passed away at the age of 91 this week — was an architect by trade, having both a small firm and a long tenure on the academic side of the discipline. His most beloved novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, was in fact the outgrowth of a different, abandoned pro...

three from Elixir - Brooklyn Rail

On the Western Frontfor Katt Lissard 1 A feint to the left and he was out in the open court, where anything was possible, morning till midnight, and then it was time to stare at the moon and stars and think of people in the past tense only, because that’s where they are, or were, the flowers out the bedroom window, the key on the tray, and that’s where we want them to stay, no questions asked. 2 An angel-food cake soaked in sherry was offered to the frien...

R.I.P. Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot & The Line

Norton Juster Photo: Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) As reported by Deadline, author Norton Juster—best known for writing iconic and beloved children’s books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot And The Line—has died. Juster’s death was confirmed by his publisher, Penguin Random House, and an NPR report says he died from complications related to a recent stroke. He was 91. Juster was born in Brooklyn ...

The Devil To Pay

Meanings of "The Devil To Pay" The phrase "the devil to pay" means some serious trouble that arises as a result of a specific situation or obligation. It could be difficult in some situations or even a messy situation. Origin of "The Devil To Pay" The phrase "the devil to pay" seems to have originated from the word ‘devil.’ Its first use can be traced back to The Sailor’s Word-book, by William Henry Smyth that was published in 1865. However, it was the seam of a ship. Later, it was u...

Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. | Current

Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. | CurrentSourceURL: https://current.org/timeline-the-history-of-public-broadcasting-in-the-u-s/?wallit_nosession=1 Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. Public broadcasting in the U.S. has grown from local and regional roots at schools and universities into a nationally known source of news and entertainment for milli...

A Bibliographical Alphabet | Tales of Mystery and Pagination

A Bibliographical Alphabet Due to the current situation, we are all working from home, so we are unable to show you new images from our collections. However, we are keen to maintain our online presence, so do follow us on Twitter and enjoy looking back at previous blog posts. We are also available by email – epbooks@tcd.ie – but obviously there is a limit as to what research we can do to answer your enquiries. We will do our best, of course! Bibliography, in the sense of the history and ...

And when I looked … a book was therein

And when I looked … a book was thereinSourceURL: https://www.tcd.ie/library/epb/blog/and-when-i-looked-a-book-was-therein/ Sometimes it’s obvious that a book has a story to tell before you even look at the text. The volume at OLS X-1-60 is a good example. As soon as it is lifted from its protective storage box, the hand-made brown velvet case begs to be stroked. The initials TW are embroidered on the top; the pink felt lining protrudes; and the cardboard backing s...

Bibles | Tales of Mystery and Pagination

Category Archives: Bibles Sometimes it’s obvious that a book has a story to tell before you even look at the text. The volume at OLS X-1-60 is a good example. As soon as it is lifted from its protective storage box, the hand-made brown velvet case begs to be stroked. The initials TW are embroidered on the top; the pink felt lining protrudes; and the cardboard backing shows through where moths have made a meal of the felt. Continue reading → ...

Why Eddie Murphy Plays A White Jewish Man In Coming 2 America - Screen Rant

Why Eddie Murphy Plays A White Jewish Man In Coming 2 America Why does Eddie Murphy, a Black actor, play a white Jewish man in Coming 2 America? Here's the backstory involving vaudevillian blackface. Eddie Murphy plays a white Jewish man in Coming 2 America, which was an idea from the original film's director. In 2021, the casting decision may not seem appropriate, and some viewers may feel that such cultural appropriation is offensive. However, historical context is cru...

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Little Bayou

"I think I’m in lust," the fisherman slurred as we played naked in his borrowed truck, now full of sand after our first date. I sucked his middle finger like a crawfish head. His hands did smell of fish and engine grease, black under the nails and roughed up with callouses. They rubbed like sandpaper when he jammed his hand down my Levi’s, but oh how I relished getting hooked by this lanky, long haired sailor. He was still a stranger to me, but I bit the bait hard. I was charmed the mo...

314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)

Author Patricia Engel joins Jacke to talk about her childhood in New Jersey, her artistic family, her lifelong love of stories and writing, her new novel Infinite Country, and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" by Gabriel García Márquez, a story she first read as a 14-year-old and which she returns to often. PATRICIA ENGEL is the author of Infinite Country, a Reese’s Book Club pick, Esquire Book Club pick, Indie Next pick, Amazon Best ...

Doogie Howser MD: Surprisingly Real, and Really Good Medicine

I watched Doogie Howser, MD as a kid when it was on the air, but to be honest, I hadn’t thought about it in years. I remembered enough to be in on the joke when How I Met Your Mother made a reference to it in a tag one time, but that was about it. […] The post Doogie Howser MD: Surprisingly Real, and Really Good Medicine appeared first on 25YL.

WandaVision viewers highlight intriguing Doctor Strange detail in final episode

Marvel fans are highlighting an intriguing detail about the final scene of WandaVision. The ninth and final episode of Disney Plus’s hit series was broadcast on Friday (5 March), and ended with a scene that directly set up the next Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) project Elizabeth Olsen will star in, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Olsen, who plays Wanda Maximoff AKA the Scarlet Witch, will join Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2022 sequel, with the...

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“Tenet” Isn’t Paradoxical—It’s Christopher Nolan on Climate Change

In Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar, Anne Hathaway, starring as Brand, a member of a team of scientist-astronauts sent through a wormhole in search of an Earth-like planet in the face of desperate conditions on Earth, states: "Time is relative, okay? It can stretch, and it can squeeze, but… it can’t run backwards. Just can’t." The movie was celebrated by many critics (myself very much included) and scientists for its realistic engagement with physics, especially general relat...

Soiled, Torn, Dead

Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...

Fictional Bodies

Literary Persons and Medieval Fiction in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs by Julie Orlemanski Like many exegetes before him, the twelfth-century Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux regarded the lovers in the Song of Songs as allegorical fictions. Yet these prosopopoeial figures remained of profound commentarial interest to him. Bernard’s Sermons on the Song of Songs returns again and again to the literal level of meaning, where text becomes voice and voice becomes f...

Duos 19 – Adverts for Actual Hats

The poems are taken from a series, Adverts for Actual Hats, in which William Repass and Dan Ivec observed a number of Ivec's illustrations - all featuring a hat of some sort - and dreamed together prose poems which act as deranged commercials for the hats seen in the drawings. If the reader is understandably covetous of such headgear, they may direct queries via Instagram: @venial_usa. In the 19th of the Duos series, new poetry by Dan Ivec and William Repass. The post Duos #19 – Advert...

The World According to Grayson Perry

Maps are mirrors. They are designed, at the most elementary level, to translate vast geographic space into something compact, yet they can’t help but reflect much more: ignorance, fear, prejudice, fantasy, myth. Two famous ancient globes embrace the unknown with the words Hic sunt dracones: "Here be dragons." Even Google Maps and Waze trade on what we all know to be speculation—the idea that they’re sending us on the best route.A cultural mapping of the U.S.:The American Dream, by Perry.    ...

The day Jodie came out (and became the accused)

It's hardly a secret in Hollywood that Jodie Foster is gay. Everybody with an interest in her private life whether prurient or more personal has known it for at least as long as she has been an Oscar-winning actress, which is pushing 20 years by now. (She won an Academy Award for her role as a rape victim in 1988's The Accused, and again three years later for her indelible performance as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs.) An equally open secret is that she is one of ...