Monthly Archives: January 2018

Reading Well: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Max Porter‘s Grief is the Thing with Feathers (2015) lives somewhere between a prose poem and a novella, and, in fact, at times feels like the script for a fascinating stage production. It is a short, stunningly creative, and highly evocative … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Daniel (@MKNN)

We are all about to be submerged by a tidal wave of Nnedi Okorafor. Who Fears Death (read before I started Reading Wells, and highly recommended) is in production by HBO, her Binti series is a critical favorite, etc. The third novel to be … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Kameron Hurley‘s The Stars are Legion (2017) is a good old-fashioned space opera featuring an exclusively female cast of characters. There is a groundhog-day element at work, as the protagonist has repeatedly failed in an attempt to seize control of (some significant … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Strawberry and Chocolate

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Daniel (@MKNN)

When we were in Cuba in March, we asked several people to recommend Cuban films. Usually the first one mentioned was Strawberry and Chocolate, a 1993 film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío and nominated for an Oscar for … Continue reading →

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