Monthly Archives: November 2016

@TheMovies with PopPop: Mustang

Mustang is a 2015 Turkish (Turkish-French production) movie directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven. It’s a movie that combines an almost fairy tale like story with the very serious issues of young women coming of age and the struggles with modernization … Continue reading

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Reading Well: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Not only am I pretty late to the Elena Ferrante party, works like My Brilliant Friend (2012)–that is, what is considered “serious” contemporary literature, stuff that is positively reviewed in major newspapers and the like–rarely finds its way onto my reading pile. … Continue reading

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Reading Well: Supernova: The Knight, The Princess, and the Falling Star by Dewi Lestari

Supernova (2001) by Dewi Lestari came to my attention via an article I cannot find now that talked about the global diversity of contemporary science fiction–Lestari is Indonesian, and the book is firmly set there. The subtitle was added for later editions … Continue reading

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