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'Little Women' director 'sad' at awards snub of female filmmakers
AFP, Published on 04/01/2020
» PARIS - Top Hollywood woman director Greta Gerwig said she was "disappointed" that she had been snubbed by the Golden Globes, with the producer of her hit film "Little Women" blaming the "unconscious bias" of male movie critics.
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Tana French's ingenious new murder mystery
Life, Published on 14/10/2016
» Tana French, the superb Irish novelist who happens to write avidly about crime, used to link her books by having a minor character in one become the beleaguered protagonist of the next. Since the books all involved the Dublin Murder Squad, the beleaguered part came easily. But in her sixth novel, The Trespasser, she breaks that pattern to reunite the same pair of detectives who waded through The Secret Place, her fifth. That one took place at a swanky private school, a grating milieu where the girls' teen language ("Um, duh?") wasn't easy for the detectives, Antoinette Conway and Stephen Moran, to take.
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Tough-guy protagonist adds another layer
Life, Published on 28/09/2015
» 'Grain, meet the railroad," Jack Reacher tells himself, after he's picked the latest sinister little Nowheresville in which to spend a book's length of time. He appears to have gotten off a train in the middle of wheat country, for no better reasons than he liked the cryptic name of the town, Mother's Rest, and that he's got foolproof instincts for sniffing out trouble. Lee Child's Reacher series has hit Book No.20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee ("Are you going to be a problem?" "I'm already a problem. The question is, what are you going to do about it?"). Everything about it, starting with Reacher's nose for bad news, is as strong as ever.
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If he says it’s funny, it’s funny
Life, Published on 24/03/2014
» If anyone is entitled to pepper his memoir with New Yorker cartoons, it’s the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. So Bob Mankoff’s new book is half prose, half illustrations and tirelessly playful. But the artwork and text work together to tell a fizzy, jokey story about a long and busy career. Its title, How About Never — Is Never Good For You? comes from a famous Mankoff cartoon that depicts a businessman on the telephone, dodging a lunch date. Now around 70, Mankoff depicts himself with a big grin and a lipstick mark on his forehead, saying those words to the Grim Reaper.
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Map-Making chronicle finds its way to the silly side of a dry art
Spectrum, Published on 23/12/2012
» Simon Garfield's past work includes a whole book about the colour mauve and last year's delightful Just My Type, an ebullient survey of facts about fonts and typography. Now he turns his attention to a somewhat mustier subject _ the history of cartography. He is most engaging on the most chequered parts of that history.
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'Alif the unseen': A Cross-Cultural harry potter for the web set
Spectrum, Published on 15/07/2012
» In an unnamed emirate in the Persian Gulf there lives a young man with Harry Potter potential. He calls himself Alif, for the letter in the Arabic alphabet, but that's not his real name. It's the internet moniker he uses for his work as a hacker, protecting his clients from censors and the secret police. Alif is uncannily good at this. He's not a boy wizard like Harry, but he works magic just the same.
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