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The narrator of “Creation Lake” (Scribner), Rachel Kushner’s new novel, is the pseudonymous Sadie Smith, a thirty-four-year-old American who specializes in infiltrating tight-knit groups of ...
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What is realism in cinema? I have continued to wonder ... describing a person’s inner thoughts and feelings. And in this age of rampant fake videos, he added, an animated documentary is ...
Image The slippage is the slippage of literary realism. It’s the slippage that ... hidden within canonical novels of the imperial age to victims of contemporary humanitarian disasters, often ...
The scars of the past all manifest through subtle magical realism, as characters sit around ... These are characters who, in approaching middle age, have lost all hope for the future, and remain ...