Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Jane West: A Gossip's Story

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Cover of Jane West's A Gossip's Story , edited by Devoney Looser, Melinda O'Connell and Caitlin Kelly, Valancourt Books, 201...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Nayak: The Hero

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In his films from the 1950s and early 60s such as the Apu Trilogy (1955-59) and Mahanagar (The Big City, 1963), writer/director Satyajit...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Saudade: Memorial de Ayres

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Machado de Assis, 1896 (detail). Image from the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional via Wikimedia Commons . The final novel of the Brazilian ...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

The mysteries of Dido and Aeneas

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Guillermo Resto (Aeneas) and Mark Morris (Dido) in the Mark Morris Dance Group's Dido and Aeneas . Original image from markmorrisd...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Professor Marston and the real Wonder Women

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We recently watched Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), written and directed by Angela Robinson. At the end of the film we ...
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