Political Fictions Joan Didion (Knopf) Joan Didion’s new book, Political Fictions, examines American politics by observing the closed rhetorical loop within the group of politicians and reporters she calls the “political class.” They are, “those who manage policy and those who report on it…those who run the polls and those who quote them…those who ask […]
Paula Gilovich
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Innocence and Experience
Unresolved Memory Haunts Director, Film
Under the Sand dir. Ozon Opens Fri Aug 10 Cinema 21 When director François Ozon was a young French boy on holiday in the Landes, a southwest region of France on the Bay of Biscay, he befriended an old Dutch couple at the beach. It’s not difficult to imagine petit François, age nine or 10, […]