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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A Hymn to Life by Gisele Pelicot review a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

Her ex-husband, Dominique, who will almost certainly be in jail for the rest of his life for drugging and raping his wife and recruiting 50 men over the internet to do likewise, takes his place among the monsters of our age. In his absence, the reader may experience a version of what happened in Gisele Pelicot's own family namely, the misdirection of anger towards her.
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fromArtforum
2 months ago

David Lynch (1946-2025)

David Lynch and a collaborator paused other projects to write a screenplay for Lost Highway exploring a premise of sudden identity transformation.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

A Rupture in One's Sense of Self

A protagonist's COVID infection transforms identity, causing memory loss, invented language, altered perception, and new artistic creation.
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