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Chilean Author Nona Fernández’s Historical Fiction ‘The Twilight Zone’ Dismantles Good and Evil Dichotomies
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Chilean Author Nona Fernández’s Historical Fiction ‘The Twilight Zone’ Dismantles Good and Evil Dichotomies

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 / 7 June 2021

In search of answers from Chile’s painful past, Nona Fernández imagines and reconstructs the events surrounding the testimony of a real-life torturer in her book, The Twilight Zone.

Of Purges and Prescience: On David France’s LGBTQ Documentary, ‘Welcome to Chechnya’
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Of Purges and Prescience: On David France’s LGBTQ Documentary, ‘Welcome to Chechnya’

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 / 4 August 2020

The ongoing persecution of LGBTQ individuals in Chechnya, or anywhere in the world, should come as no surprise, or "amazement". It's a motif undergirding the history of civil society that certain people will always be identified for extermination.