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Why are we so sniffy about cosy crime novels?
When I picked up a copy of Deborah Crombie's No Mark Upon Her (Pan, 2011) my expectations weren't high. The cover showed a misty river scene complete...
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Loving You
Some people think theres no such thing as love at first sight. I thought that too before I met you. You came up to me for the first time and I didn't...
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The Help Essay
The Help: Essay The Help has many beautiful meanings all packed into two little words. The Help not only refers to the black maids that care for the...
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Blue Jasmine 5
Susan Sontag in her talk on Classical Pornography speaks about forms of literature that pornography may have unintentionally generated. She mentions...
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Blue Jasmine 4
Blue Jasmine is an unusual film for a late director. I stopped watching Woody Allen films after Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters. Those films...
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Blue Jasmine 3
There are people called "social alcoholics." Social alcoholics have an obsession of the mind about what other people are thinking and saying about...
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Blue Jasmine 1
Blue Jasmine. A completely unique flower, flowoverly decored. A text. A meaning, a reconstruction of Billie Holiday's ultra-famous dither into...
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Breaking Bad 1
The cable tv series " Breaking Bad " is a literal journey into hell. The most striking image of all is that of the "pants" flying into the air and...
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Caliphate
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The creation of a new caliphate by young Sunni muslims restores the caliphates of the distant past as the muslim world is purified and made to think as one.
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Despatches from the war against being ordinary.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver (Vintage, 2009) 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That...
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