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• Forever in the Good Place

  

  The real question, Eleanor, is what do we owe to each other?It takes Forever more than one episode to reveal where it is going – it starts as a show about a... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September

  Non-Fiction: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt: Thinking Without A Banister.Fiction: Lynne Tillman: Motion Sickness.Clarice Lispector... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  The problem is that demanding that any one woman bear the full professional and social and emotional cost of dismantling the machinery of men in power propping... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Fiction: Lara Elena Donnelly: Armistice.Kirstin Chen: Bury What We Cannot Take.Meg Wolitzer: The Ten-Year Nap.Courtney S. Stevens: Dress Codes For Small... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  

  Fiction: Fiona Shaw: Tell it to the Bees.Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Harmless Like You. Rachel Cusk: Outline.Kelly Quindlen: Her Name in the Sky.Ottessa Moshfegh:... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid's Tale - What Are You Going to Do When They Come for Your Daughter?

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x12 Postpartum. The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x13 The Word. The centre of this entire season has been June’s pregnancy, and the impossible... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June.

  Non-Fiction: Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty.Fiction: Nicole Griffith: So Lucky.James S.A. Corey: Abaddon's Gate.James S.A. Corey: Cibola Burn.James S.A.... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - I Tell, Therefore You Are.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x11 Holly.Last week, when it finally became too much to discuss this show as a fictional narrative without clearly pointing out how much... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – Is This Now?

  

  Westworld: 2x10 The Passenger.Dolores: You’re almost the man I remember. But there are flaws. A word, a gesture, tiny fracture that grows into a chasm. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid's Tale - Will I Ever See You Again?

  The Handmaid's Tale: 2x10 The Last Ritual.Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - You Think You’re on Your Own Little Tailor-made Narrative.

  

  Westworld: 2x09 Vanishing Point.Emily: You haven’t lost yourself to pretending, you are in your very essence a lie. Vanishing points, where two parallel lines... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - It Does No Good to Want the Impossible.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 2x09 Smart Power.June: That’s what I am now, my circumstances have been reduced. I suppose I am one of the lucky ones. I still have... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – This World Was Not My True Home.

  

  Westworld: 2x08 Kiksuya.This is the wrong world.A few episodes ago, Dolores insisted with all of her might that family and love were chains that kept the hosts... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - It Was Nice Working with You Too.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 2x08 Women's Work.So far, we have seen many implicit and explicit ways in which Gilead uses violence against women. It tortures, maims,... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - The Humans Are Playing at Resurrection.

  

  Westworld: 2x07 Les Écorchés.The story of the fire itself. An “Écorché” is a human figure, drawn or painted or sculpted, with the skin removed to reveal the... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Michelle Tea: Against Memoir.Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls.Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts.Fiction: M-E Girard: Girl Mans Up.Tana French: The Trespasser... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – What If I Don’t Find Her.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 2x07 After.Well jesus fuck. After is about remembrance. About grief. About what it feels like to lose a person that you can’t live... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – This is a Test.

  

  Westworld: 2x06 Phase Space.It begins with Arnold, telling Dolores that she is on a path that will take her beyond the park, a path that he isn’t sure how to... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I Scared Myself.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 2x06 First Blood.Where to begin, with this tour de force of an episode? Maybe with Serena Joy, this central miracle of the show. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself.

  

  Westworld: 2x05 Akane no Mai.Maeve: I told you I’ve found a new voice. Now we use it. This episode is as good as this show gets, especially in the parts set in... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO