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In this scene from "Annihilation," the director Alex Garland discusses the strange mutations of animals and plants found in these uncommon woods.
Attention New Yorkers! GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI author Richard Lloyd Parry will be coming to NYC on March 1st to discuss his book! He'll be joined in conversation by editor of The New York Review of Books and author Ian Buruma at the Japan Society. Followed by a book signing reception. You won't want to miss it!
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 was one of the country’s most catastrophic natural disasters, and the impact of the disaster is still being felt eve...n seven years later. Best-selling author and Asia Editor for The Times of London, Richard Lloyd Parry, reported from the disaster zone for six years following the devastation. GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI offers a revealing investigation into the hauntings and mysteries of a town hit especially hard by the tragedy.
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Oscar Isaac Talks Annihilation Movie, Star Wars, and the Most Turbulent Year of His Life:
"The very allegorical nature of sci-fi, and particularly with Annihilation, the idea that we self-destruct, we are doomed, and we do it to ourselves. That it's actually in our genes to self-destruct. That's the reason he [Alex Garland] did the whole movie. And I think, for me, I get very drawn to these characters."
"The elders had the hardships I imagined, but none of them defined themselves by those hardships. Only other people did that."
A conversation between John Leland, author of HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE, and his publisher Sarah Crichton.
The Verge calls Annihilation Movie "the most thoughtful science fiction movie since Arrival."
It is adapted from the first book of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy and is in theaters now!
The Times Literary Supplement brings us an excerpt from the essay, “Our Public Conversation: How America Talks About Itself” by Marilynne Robinson:
"I have arrived at the conclusion that American history is substantially false, though not exceptionally so, and that many of these falsifications go back to a source that is older than the country, earlier than the colonies. I dwell on American history because it is mine, and because it is the screen on which the national psyche ...is projected. I would like to think America might go on for a very long time, always recognizable in its best qualities, however it may transform itself otherwise. I assume most Americans would agree that the essence of the project did find classic expression in 1776 and 1789. It seems to me that for the survival of our experiment to be even imaginable the country must know itself much better."
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From Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa comes THE NEIGHBORHOOD, a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. The novel is set in the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, and centers on two wealthy couples of Lima’s high society that become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail.
In this excerpt we meet Enrique Cárdenas, a high-profile businessman, when he receives an unwelcome visit from a tabloid magazine editor who brings an unsettling remnant from Enrique’s past.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux shared Annihilation Movie's video.
Today’s the day! Annihilation Movie, the film adaptation of part one of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, is in theaters today and we’re so excited! Get your tickets now to find out #whatsinside...
To survive, they must fight #WhatsInside. Get tickets: http://paramnt.us/AnnihilationTickets
Bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer takes us to northern Florida to discuss threats to wildlife, writing about the environment as political act, and the lighthouse that inspired the landscape in ANNIHILATION (the film adaptation is out tomorrow!)
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The New York Times profiles Mario Vargas Llosa. At 81, he remains a literary and political colossus across the Spanish-speaking world, and his novels have never felt more relevant. His newest novel, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, and his collected essays, SABERS AND UTOPIAS, are both out now.
"For Vargas Llosa, writing has always been a weapon against both despair and despotism...He is a defender of individual liberty and democracy in Latin America. His attacks on authoritarians have made him enemies among both socialists and conservatives. What he most respects in a person, he told me, is integrity: 'Consistency in what you believe, what you say and what you do.' And while his insistence on saying and doing exactly what he himself believes has left a scorched path in his personal life, it has also been the making of his career."
The New York Times Books' Parul Sehgal raves about Marilynne Robinson's essay collection WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?, which is out now!
"To call these essays demanding does not do them justice. Robinson's great hero, the Puritan preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards, said we should never permit a thought that we wouldn't indulge on our deathbeds. With few exceptions, this collection meets that (insane) standard; it's high-minded to the hilt, and rigorous, too...It's a dense, eccentric book of profound and generous gifts."
"I say we start by laughing at what genuinely makes us laugh. Even if the joke comes at our own expense. Especially when it comes at our own expense. It’s so important to stay funny in these unfunny times, not only as an escape valve from headline horror but because making a joke about a serious issue is not making light of it; it’s controlling the spotlight on it."
Sloane Crosley, whose essay collection LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE is out in April, writes for InStyle:
TONIGHT at 7:30! Marilynne Robinson will be at the 92nd Street Y reading from her new essay collection WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? and discussing politics, faith, consciousness and more. Hope to see you there!
For tickets: https://www.92y.org/event/marilynne-robinson
"At the Board Game Couple’s apartment, there is no working doorbell, so you have to call or text them to be let in, but both the husband and wife keep their phones on vibrate and usually leave them in some other room, so be prepared to wait for a while. The Board Game Couple offers to take your coats but then they throw them on a desk chair covered in cat hair. For appetizers, the Board Game Couple usually serves popcorn in three bowls, each with a different mix of herbs and ...spices to give the illusion that they are thoughtful and resourceful about their snacks, not cheap. The hummus is always the new flavor you saw on super sale at the grocery store. The cheese is usually a store-brand block of something mild served with fancy water crackers: creamy nothing on crunchy nothing. You wonder why they choose to splurge on the water crackers over anything else."
Keep reading THE GRIP OF IT author Jac Jemc's story "Trivial Pursuit" in Guernica:
"If you’re like me, you look at all your friends’ Instagram posts, and then you watch their Instagram Stories, and then you close the app and pretend like you’ll read the Washington Post, but you reopen Instagram and click that little magnifying glass for some reason, like social media has created this insatiable void inside you that you can only appease by constantly accessing it, thereby widening the void, and you come across two to five posts from moms you don’t know who l...ive in monochromatic homes, make their own baby food, use cloth diapers, keep dozens of houseplants alive, and have hot, bearded, adoring husbands who can’t wait to make that fifth or sixth baby. And meanwhile you’re scrolling through Instagram instead of doing the dishes or brushing your teeth at noon for the first time that day or bringing your child that plastic bowl of processed cereal he hollered for eight clicks ago."
EAT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY author Lindsay Hunter writes for Medium about being a mother in the age of Instagram:
Now an Oscar-nominated motion picture starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, André Aciman’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is a “brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful” love story (Nicole Krauss). The book traces the sudden and powerful romance that grows between an adolescent boy and a guest at his parents’ mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, obsession, fascination, and desire build and test the charged ground between them—each unprepared for the consequences of their attraction. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is about longing and intimacy, how we love others, and the painstaking process of negotiating unforeseen feelings.
Read an excerpt from CALL ME BY YOUR NAME on Work in Progress:
