An arguably more significant evolution of dystopia, however, was happening not in books but on screen. The first great dystopian film is Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic Metropolis, but beginning in the ‘70s, several dystopian novels were adapted into influential movies, most notably A Clockwork Orange and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(retitled as Blade Runner). There were… Continue reading Friday Finds
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What I Read in January
I tend to stretch myself pretty thin when it comes to reading, so I decided to approach this year with a more relaxed approach. I probably won't read as much, but hopefully, I'll still read plenty! Anyway, I ended up reading three books in January - I finished short story collection, Battleborn, true crime novel, Midnight in… Continue reading What I Read in January
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Why didn't she just get out of there as soon as she felt uncomfortable? many people explicitly or implicitly asked. It's a rich question, and there are plenty of possible answers. But if you're asking in good faith, if you really want to think through why someone might have acted as she did, the most important one is… Continue reading Friday Finds
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Harold Holt did love the sea, as his gravestone declares, and as the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre bizarrely honours. His colleague Paul Hasluck, not a fan, actually wrote (without intended irony) that Holt’s greatest asset was his “buoyancy.” But Holt almost drowned twice in the year before his death, the worst occasion at Cheviot… Continue reading Friday Finds
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In fall mom would open the front door and the back so randy tarantulas could migrate through. Green linoleum in the kitchen and once, a toddler, you practiced shaving with our dad’s razor. I remember them holding you down, lots of red-black blood on the green floor. You remember me walking on a wall in… Continue reading Friday Finds
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When I mentioned in passing I was writing about Allen, my friend Sara reported that she’d seen a Little Free Library in her neighborhood absolutely crammed to its tiny rafters with books by and about Allen. It made us both laugh—the mental image of some furious, probably female, fan who just couldn’t bear the sight… Continue reading Friday Finds
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Schultz’s story is interesting for reasons far beyond its sheer shock value. It’s entirely reasonable that at the time she created the Ryan persona, she might not have thought she could easily have a career writing about baseball as a woman. She’s also drawn a big red arrow sign pointing toward the exploitative ecosystem of… Continue reading Friday Finds
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The professors found Georgia “outrageously protective,” as Riedel put it. Even after Promethea turned 18, her mother insisted on shadowing her everywhere. Instead of diminishing over time, their fears of bullying and physical danger had hardened, and the way mother and daughter operated as a unit had become ritualistic. They were always scanning for threats… Continue reading Friday Finds
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While she waited for the commission to complete its work, the woman responsible for this national self-examination, Catherine Corless, returned in a way to those days when her children and the children of neighbors packed the house. Only now the ones gathering about her were in their 60s and 70s, with hair of silver. Home… Continue reading Friday Finds
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Sexy Doomed Sad Girls are more like puzzles than fully formed characters. Like the hysterics of old, they are a collection of symptoms and an alluring figure. "In general, movies would rather look at women than analyze them — except when the lady in question is (at least apparently) a little screwy," writes Terrence Rafferty… Continue reading Friday Finds
Sophie Overett 