![]() ![]() And another version of Logan has - somehow - just arrived on Krakoa. He must return to different stages of his former life, possessing his younger self, to protect Professor Xavier and his ancestors from a time-travelling assassin.īack in the present day, in X Deaths of Wolverine, Moira McTaggart is on the run following the end of Inferno, with Mystique in pursuit. ![]() In X Lives of Wolverine, Logan’s mind is sent back into the past to save the present. They're written by Benjamin Percy with art from Joshua Cassara and Federico Vicentini, continuing threads from X-Force (2019), Wolverine (2020), and Inferno (2021). They're part of the X-Men franchise and center on Logan, the titular Wolverine.īoth series are part of the wider Krakoan Age saga, bridging the gap between its Reign of X arc and the subsequent Destiny of X. X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine are two linked limited series from Marvel Comics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor.ĭespite her guilt and anxiety-or maybe because of them-Emma agrees to revisit her past. The last she-or anyone-saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.įifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings-massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. ![]() Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. ![]() From the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that’s impossible to forget-no matter how hard you try. ![]() ![]() These two threads weave through the labyrinth that is 2666, connecting the many themes and tropes and moods and tones of this massive novel. There are two major, intertwined plot threads in 2666, one about a series of gruesome rapes and murders in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, Mexico, and the other concerning an obscure German writer with the improbable name Benno Von Archimboldi. What is it about, then? There are too many answers to that question, but here goes– Most of the sentences are very, very long. The book is excellent, addictive, full of pain and pathos and humanity. The book is, in my paperback edition (composed of three separate books) 893 pages long. ![]() The book comprises five sections, each focusing on a separate but often overlapping set of characters and locations. But hang on, I’m already off to a bad start I admit, there’s no context here, is there? Let me try again.Ģ666 is Chilean exile Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous magnum opus. ![]() I read the book in less than a month, usually in forty or fifty page sittings, something I usually don’t make time to do. Worried that 900 pages is too long? Don’t worry. ![]() ![]() Here’s a very short review: go get the book and read it. Do I say that the book is good, great, fantastic, a literary achievement? These words don’t seem big enough, or they seem like hackneyed clichés, ugly inadequacies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus The Awakening is American’s first major portrayal of the Protestant-adrift-among-Catholics, and it is only as such that it becomes our proto-feminist exploration of a wife’s quest for sexual and aesthetic autonomy. When the story begins, Edna is chafing in her marriage to a self-involved financier and, despite her Calvinist upbringing and persisting individualist sensibility, becomes increasingly involved, Theron-style, with a Creole trio: Madame Ratignolle, the mother-woman who is sensual in aspect and touch Robert Lebrun, a serial acolyte of older women who refuses to deliver on his sexual promise despite beguiling her on the refulgent isle of La Chenière Caminada and Mademoiselle Reisz, a spinster artiste, whose way with Frédéric Chopin’s nocturnes is her way with Edna, soul and (implicitly) body. In The Awakening, Edna, a married Kentucky Presbyterian, is set adrift among Creole Catholics who embody a sexual sacramentality that attracts her but that she can’t, herself, achieve, beyond eventual submission to adultery with a local lothario. ![]() ![]() Chapter 3 argues that the now-canonical reading of Kate Chopin’s small masterpiece, The Awakening, which takes Edna Pontellier’s sexual wanderlust as symptomatic of a racist, primitivistic projection (per Toni Morrison’s general formulation), utterly neglects the founding plot and concerted characterizations. ![]() ![]() That is, until she's told about a local death that's a suspected murder. Beth's new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she's felt since Levi took her. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hideout. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. ![]() Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. First in a new series set in Alaska from beloved author Paige Shelton, Thin Ice will chill your bones. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or getting down the amazingly complex performance of sunlight passing through the staves of a fence on a voluminous creased sail mended by half a dozen girls.Įven his scene of labourers in a raisin-packing factory veers away from the social concerns it seemed about to raise – figures jammed together in sweltering darkness – in favour of a bright yellow sunbeam that resembles nothing so much as a two by four plank, laid diagonally across the picture. In no time he’s back putting on the flash and dash of sunshine skittering across the shallows where several naked boys shine wet as his oleaginous paint. Photograph: © Fondazione Musei Civici di Veneziaīut Sorolla was not made for sorrow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So yes, while I have generally rather enjoyed (and most definitely academically appreciated) Jeannie Baker’s Where the Forest Meets the Sea and have on an entirely aesthetic and visual level absolutely cherished the detailed and intricate collage like illustrations, in my opinion, Where the Forest Meets the Sea would probably if not even actually work much better as a wordless offering, namely because Baker's artwork is just so much more detailed and intricate than her rather sparse and in my opinion quite majorly unimaginative text (which I also tend to think rather does limit the pictures as a whole, since the fact remains that without the author/illustrator's limited and limiting narrative, there would in my opinion be much more scope for the imagination, for independent storytelling, as well as discussions concerning Australia's rainforests, their grandeur, but also the modern, mostly man-made threats they are currently facing and experiencing).Īnd apropos to the illustrations of Where the Forest Meets the Sea, although yes, I really and truly have very much visually enjoyed them and their minute, exquisite detail, it also does kind of bother me more than a trifle that Jeannie Baker has supposedly made use of preserved and collected natural materials for her collages (as the author's note at the back of Where the Forest Meets the Sea does definitely seem to indicate this). ![]() ![]() ![]() When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a course to destroy each other. ![]() ![]() And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated her court threatens mutiny and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. But when a vengeful spirit abducts Malik’s younger sister, Nadia, as payment into the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal-kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.īut Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. The first in an fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction.įor Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. Content Warning: Violence, Death, Animal Death, Murder, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Racism, Oppression // ![]() ![]() He is also the author of the Superman: Earth One trilogy of graphic novels, and he has written Superman, Wonder Woman, and Before Watchmen for DC Comics. ![]() Straczynski wrote the psychological drama film Changeling (2008) and was co-writer on the martial arts thriller Ninja Assassin (2009), was one of the key writers for (and had a cameo in) Marvel's Thor (2011), as well as the horror film Underworld: Awakening (2012), and the apocalyptic horror film World War Z (2013).įrom 2001 to 2007, Straczynski wrote Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, followed by runs on Thor and Fantastic Four. ![]() He is also the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison. and Studio JMS and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004) and Sense8 (2015–2018). He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. ![]() ![]() Joseph Michael Straczynski ( / s t r ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i/ born July 17, 1954) is an American filmmaker and comic book writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is military violence, religious fundamentalism and economic exploitation. It allows expressing rage against what today in Poland, in America and around the world can be identified with male power. Referring to the most radical feminist manifesto in the radical movie form is neither historical nor accidental. Its goal was to restore the memory of Valerie Solanas and at the same time pay tribute to the French artists who transferred her manifesto to the screen. Our picture, which is a faithful replica of the original, can be treated as a kind of antidote to both these annoyances. The French movie SCUM Manifesto by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig from 1976 is officially unavailable. So far, there is no Polish edition of “SCUM Manifesto” by Valerie Solanas from 1967. Jill Godmilow: “Kobietom mającym zmysł obywatelski, odpowiedzialnym i śmiałym nie pozostaje nic innego jak tylko obalić rząd, zlikwidować system monetarny…” ![]() Premierze towarzyszyć będzie wykład Agnieszki Graff. Polska premiera ostatniego filmu Jill Godmilow “SCUM Manifesto” – zrealizowanej w Polsce i z polskimi aktorkami Anitą Sokołowską i Hanną Maciąg – repliki francuskiego filmu z lat siedemdziesiątych. ![]() |
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