nthposition online magazine: reviews

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The labyrinth scored for 11 different cats

review by Ian Simmons

A medieval penitential labyrinth interpreted in purrs. Very high concept.

Victrola favourites

review by Ian Simmons

Misogyny, yodelling and songs about pigs - unmissable

Revolutions

review by Douglas Messerli

Almodóvar's Volver is a kind of 'revolution' is several senses.

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Beyond brown and bubbly

review by Jim Chaffee

Reading Louis Armand’s Breakfast at Midnight

A sickness called America - Thor Garcia’s The News Clown

"Thor’s coming of age is not set against an adolescent nation establishing borders or growing through hard times to become a major power, but rather against a decaying and degenerate nation populated with inbred, narcissistic adolescents long past their second decades."

The Gospel of Wealth: towards a new generation of American consumership

review by Jim Chaffee

A review of Economics and Finance for the American Way of Life

Family Romance

review by John-Ivan Palmer

“Mother raises the kids in the father’s absence and tries to keep them clean. Clean of what? Pathogens! A pathogen in this context is both an organism and a meme, always the other guy’s.”

Les Apaches de la bibliothèque infinie

review by Jim Chaffee

“In essence, Faucher has made literature as real as mathematics and made the world outside the reader’s head as unreal as mathematics.”

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The angel meets his devil

review by Douglas Messerli

“if Rath is not exactly an angel, he is, at least, a kind of tormented saint”

Two harbours

review by Douglas Messerli

If neither Carné’s tragic vision in Le quai des brumes nor Kaurismäki’s more positive presentation of life in Le Havre is very realistic, who cares?