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One might feel particularly put off – in view of Vladmir Putin’s (and thus Russia’s) abominable war on Ukraine raging since February 2022 – having to read a book on the erstwhile Soviet Union, that scours the ghostly traces of a lost civilisation, the “Soviet lifeworld” even though the Soviet Union is gone. But as we don’t stop reading about America even though it bombed Japan and Afghanistan, or about Japan despite the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, cultural historian Karl Schlögel informs us that he was triggered to…

Eye-popping cinematic blowouts come easily to Karan Johar, director of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham …, but the air of excess in his latest comedy-drama jars a little whenever the movie tries to send up the stinking-rich, dim-bulb Punjabi hero Rocky (Ranveer Singh), heir to a Delhi sweet empire, and a man not visibly lacking in self-esteem. “I look like Prada and Gucci got together to give birth to me,” he wails, flanked by hundreds of adoring female dancers who seem in no mood to contradict him. Hard…

Sloppy Joe’s Bar stands on the corner of Greene and Duval, Key West’s main drag, where much of the Florida island city’s commotion takes place. On an early Saturday evening in April, the mayhem was already well under way: barefoot bachelorette parties, zigzagging golf carts, all of the boisterousness, board shorts and muscular calves so particular to the American vacation spirit.In the former fisher’s bar, once beloved by Ernest Hemingway, the crowd was in holiday mode – sun-pinkened and half-dressed, ordering more…

How did queer people in India and other parts of the world experience the Covid-19 pandemic? What kinds of socio-economic support were they able to access during periods of lockdown and quarantine? To what extent did their gender identity and sexual orientation shape their everyday lives? Who were the most marginalized among the marginalized? To dig into these questions, read Queers in Quarantine edited by Koyote Millar and Rahul Sen. Millar is a poet and therapist based in Norway. Sen is a PhD candidate at Tufts…

Lelia Goldoni, the actor best known as the female lead in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking film Shadows, has died aged 86. The news was first reported by the Wrap, who said that her manager JD Sobol announced that she died on Saturday at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey.Goldoni had become involved with Shadows as a result of the acting workshop Cassavetes had started in 1956 – before which, according to Cassavetes, she had no professional acting experience. The film itself arose from an improvised audition…

Glover and his brother have been tapped to take over writing for a long-in-the-works Lando Calrissian series Donald Glover will return to a galaxy far, far away, reprising his role as Lando Calrissian for a new Disney+ series that he’ll also write with his brother, Stephen, according to The Hollywood Reporter (and first reported by Above the Line). A Lando series has been on the Disney docket since 2020, two years after Glover played a young version of the character (originally…

This is your second work of translation from Rajasthani but of the same author Vijaydan Detha, what inspired you to translate his work specifically? Vishes Kothari (Courtesy HarperCollins) Detha was the obvious choice, given that I wanted to work with Rajasthani prose. The fact that his prose is based on the traditional oral literature of the land makes it all the more important. One of the reasons to choose Detha is of course the amount of work that is available. A very small number of stories have been…

Film: Haunted Mansion Cast: Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Lakeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona RyderDirector: Justin SimienRating: 2/5Runtime: 123 min. The latest remake based on Disneyland’s iconic 3 minute Haunted Mansion ride, this 2 hour long horror-comedy might harken back to nostalgia driven excitement, but for those who haven’t had the good fortune of visiting the famous Children`s attraction, it won’t cut much ice. Disney’s third…

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One foggy night at 3am, the actor who plays Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars found himself clinging to the edge of Brooklyn Bridge. An instant ago, he had been on the public walkway, but now he was teetering on its brink. As the breeze blew around him, he gazed out at the Statue of Liberty. He saw the river below, and as he hung precariously above a 39m drop, one thing kept going through his mind: “I’ll show all of you. I’ll show you what you’re doing to me. And when I’m gone, then you’ll feel exactly what I went through.”This…