Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Refuses Righteousness
Alex Garland’s Civil War refuses righteousness. Instead, it takes a hard, unflinching look at the true costs of war for everybody and everything it touches.
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Documentary ’For Sama’ Shows the Courage of Existential Love in War-Torn Syria
For Sama urges the preservation of basic human rights — including the right to parent a child in her birthplace — at all costs, not only for this particular Syrian family's future, but for the survival of the human race.
Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience
Powerful novels The Boat People and Brixton Beach, both tackling the Sri Lankan refugee experience but from profoundly different angles, are eminently enjoyable reads but they're more than that: they're important reads.
‘Blood at the Root’ and the Cultivation of Racial Hatred in America
The story of Georgia's all-white Forsyth County and how they made it that way.
Paul Theroux’s ‘Deep South’ Takes Us Inside America’s Third World
After a career spent traveling the world, Paul Theroux makes a revelatory journey through the blighted, wounded, struggling, well-armed, and resilient small towns of the American South.
Blood and Thunder: Nerds, Dudes, and Noogies
The energetic and convivial shows of Volbeat and Kamelot are reminders that for all the insularity present in extreme metal writing, there's true joy to be found in the popular stuff.
Brother Against Brother: The Drawing of the Sword
The game doesn't portray brothers fighting brothers. It shows pieces on a map easing into firing range of one another with the objective of causing more casualties than they suffer.