The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() In further contravention of horror's usual moral code, it is chastity, not promiscuity, which is punished. Summerisle and his fellow-islanders believe that their apple harvest is sustained by 'Old Gods', and the film is punctuated by colourful scenes of ritual and superstition in which Howie's escalating moral outrage is humourously evident. ![]() ![]() It also tackles a very unfamiliar subject for British horror: paganism.Īt its heart is a clash of beliefs between Neil Howie ( Edward Woodward), a priggish 'Christian copper' from the mainland, and the suave heathen Lord Summerisle ( Christopher Lee, clearly relishing his newfound freedom from playing vampires). It flouts horror-movie conventions by having no unambigously 'good' or 'evil' characters and no supernatural elements. Robin Hardy, 1973) is a genre misfit, equally resembling a detective thriller, a religious allegory, even a musical. Show full synopsisĪlthough marketed as a horror film, The Wicker Man (d. Investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl, a police sergeant goes to a Scottish island, an isolated community whose ancient religious beliefs run totally counter to his strongly-held Christian faith. ![]()
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K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. ![]() The tin roof blowdown james lee burke5/19/2023 ![]() In a singular style that defines the genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. The power grid of the city has been destroyed and New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. ![]() As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers when he is deployed to New Orleans. In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. ![]() John dear by laura lannes5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. A dark and horrific look at a bad relationship, told with exquisite art. The magic infusing all great and trivial political slogans is repeated privately, in the apparently most neutral objects: the rigor mortis of society is spreading at last to the cell of intimacy that thought itself secure. sores she hadnt even noticed until pointed out to her by John. They form a zone of paranoiac infection, and all the power of reason is needed to break their spell. Words, figures, dates hatched and uttered, take on a life of their own, bringing woe on anyone who goes near them. ![]() It can be observed again and again that something once expressed, however absurd, fortuitous or wrong it may be, because it has been once said, so tyrannizes the sayer as his property that he can never have done with it. But as a pure means of power, disenchanted words acquire a magical sway over their users. The emotions, which in conversation worthy of human beings were engaged ln the subject discussed, are now harnessed to an obstinate insistence on being right, regardless of the relevance of what is said. Speakers seek t0 pile up points: there is no conversation that is not titrated like a poison by an opportunity to compete. ![]() Speaking takes on a malevolent set of gestures that bode no good. ![]() Spontaneity and objectivity in discussing matters are disappearing even in the most intimate circle, just as in politics debate has long since been supplanted by the assertion of power. ![]() A swim on the pond in the rain5/19/2023 ![]() This is a grim scenario, although not, as Saunders points out, an untruthful one. And I love some short stories, too: the dark, funny magic of Kelly Link, the miraculously rich work of Deborah Eisenberg, the popular energy still coursing through short fiction in the sci-fi and fantasy worlds. I can already hear multiple friends and colleagues jumping up to protest “I love short stories!” in the slightly wistful tone of someone praising the virtues of vinyl LPs. ![]() Now they live in captivity in poorly selling collections stuck on bookshelves, hardly their native habitat. Appearing in almost every magazine, they diverted people during quiet evenings at home, on trains, and in doctors’ waiting rooms. Once, stories flourished at the fertile intersection of art and entertainment, much as television does now. ![]() The literary short story is an awkward holdover. Slate has relationships with various online retailers.īut note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change.Īll prices were up to date at the time of publication. ![]() Playing for pizza by john grisham5/19/2023 ![]() To say that Italy holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. He knows nothing about Parma, has never been to Europe, and doesn’t speak or understand a word of Italian. ![]() So Rick reluctantly agrees to play for the Panthers–at least until a better offer comes along–and heads off to Italy. ![]() Yes, Italians do play American football, to one degree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player–any former NFL player–at their helm. Against enormous odds Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback–for the mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams.īut all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, find a team that needs him. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. 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Around the country, hordes of people would surely flock to anything they did onstage. They were universally admired, even held on a pedestal, despite their illicit union. This was the right time, director George Cukor advised Vivien and Larry, to cash in. Now the lovers, still unmarried-and yet to be divorced from their previous spouses-had to decide what to do next. A year after Vivien Leigh had landed the role of Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s Gone With the Wind - and only a little longer since Laurence Olivier had been cast as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights-the two were global superstars. ![]() ![]() But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. ![]() This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. ![]() His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ![]() ![]() Ngarta’s chapter is told in third-person with direct quotations: “Tired out after her long chase, Ngarta climbed up the slope to the shade tree where her family had their camp. ![]() One only needs to listen, to appreciate how significant these voices are.Īlthough their experiences were quite different, both Ngarta and Jukuna show undeniable strength in the face of violence, hardship, and loss. That’s why Two Sisters is such an important book it gives a truly honest voice to those who have been silenced. It’s easy to forget that every person has a story to tell. It’s easy to forget how truly isolated some communities were (and still are). “No one in the desert had heard of Adolf Hitler … It would be much later before they first heard the word ‘Australia ’ and learned that they were not only Walmajarri, but also Australians. Two Sisters begins by reminding the reader of the cultural gulf between native Australians and the white history so avidly imposed on us through school and mainstream media. Published by Magabala Books, Two Sisters hails as the first printed autobiography containing text in the Walmajarri language. ![]() Two Sisters tells the stories of Ngarta and Jukuna, two women who were raised in the desert of Western Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third of her seven famed husbands was Mick Riva, a womanizing singer, who makes a cameo in “Daisy Jones & The Six,” in which Reid plays with form and genre to write a documentary-style story about a fictional Fleetwood Mac-esque band., the band’s own version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours,” titled “Aurora” and their split. Evelyn spends the book sharing her true life story for the first time with a young journalist. The first of the three is centered around a woman named Evelyn Hugo, a classic Hollywood actress based on the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth. ![]() ![]() While the books vary in their plots, all of the stories deal with characters who grapple with fame. Reid’s universe is so masterfully created, I wish I could live in it. ![]() “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” (2017), “Daisy Jones & the Six” (2019) and “Malibu Rising” (2021) are not technically a trilogy, but they take place within the same historical fictional universe with the characters weaving in and out of each other’s stories. When I read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s three most recent books last summer, they quickly became some of my favorite books of all time. PHOTO CREDIT: thecurryrestaurantattheendoftheuniverse.blog ‘Daisy Jones & The Six,’ ‘Malibu Rising’ to be adaptedĭive into the Taylor Jenkins Reid literary universe. ![]() |