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Les Apaches de la bibliothèque infinie

review by Jim Chaffee

[ bookreviews ]

“In essence, Faucher has made literature as real as mathematics and made the world outside the reader’s head as unreal as mathematics.”

The case of the missing father

review by Douglas Messerli

[ filmreviews ]

The makers of The Kid with a Bike have transformed a simple story into a kind of situational fairytale

Pleasure, passion, lust

review by Douglas Messerli

[ filmreviews ]

Despite its nods to Brief Encounter, Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea is utterly different

An engineering rush (iv)

by Dylan Harris

[ people - april 12 ]

Why I held on to my marbles

by Sean Lause

[ poetry - april 12 ]

Recommended reading

Baptizing dead people for fun and profit: organized religion's most imaginative scam

by Tom Bradley

[ strangeness - june 02 ]

The Mormons have an interesting take on celestial vote-rigging.

Lowest Court Law: Cases And Commentaries

by Ronald J Stone

[ fiction - june 10 ]

"In this book, Stone has done for Lowest Court Law and Jurisprudence what Moby Dick previously did for porpoises. Many kudos to you, Judge Stone."

My temporary son

by Timeri N Murari

[ people - february 05 ]

An orphan's tale.

Rip off the ears: searching for Demosthenes’ secret in Mexico

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ places - january 08 ]

"It's difficult to find privacy in Mexico, least of all if you're traveling with a low-budget female impersonator show."

Random reading

'Yankee hotel foxtrot' by Wilco

review by Ian Simmons

[ cdreviews ]

Difficult to enthuse over.