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The Dead

[LITERATURE] This is, frankly, an event that requires much of its audience to be a great as it should be. Happily (and that’s the last adverb you’ll read here), no one is coming who isn’t interested by the idea: to begin with, some talk about James Joyce, Ireland, and Dublin, followed by a careful reading of Joyce’s masterful short story “The Dead”—which is funny and grim and perfect.

Film reviews: Transit, Gloria Bell

Rarely does a film engage both head and heart as fervently as Transit, the latest from Germany’s Christian Petzold, whose two decade career was the subject of a 2017 retrospective by the local cinema group Cultivate Cinema Circle. The film was adapted from the 1944 novel by Anna Seghers (The Seventh Cross) about a man wanted by the Nazis who assumes the identity of a dead novelist in order to get out of Europe. He has escaped a concentration camp to Marseilles, where he plans to board a boat to Mexico.

Film review: THE WEDDING GUEST

The title of Michael Winterbottom’s geographically expansive but taut new effort is meant ironically, and as something of a tease. The title character, whose name, Jay (Dev Patel), we don’t learn until well into the proceedings, is something of a puzzle, one Patel and Winterbottom make intriguing enough.

Carl Paladino and the Czech Neutral Tourists

On Wednesday morning, prolific e-mail author and equine pornography enthusiast Carl Paladino revealed that his biggest fear is apparently riding a subway car on a Friday afternoon in which he is the only white person. This is a reasonable conclusion to extrapolate from his latest email missive, which is nothing more than a vituperative attack on anyone not white. It is typical racist Carl “I’m not a racist” Paladino garbage nonsense that he keeps sending out, yet people still take him seriously as some sort of business leader or voice worth listening to. 

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