“The girl's guide to hunting and fishing” by Melissa Bank “In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank's crisp, witty, and revealing stories offer poignant glimpses of Jane Rosenal's spirited search for true love, self-understanding, and a fulfilling career. It is as though Bank has trained a telescope on the lit window of
“The Mission” directed by Roland Joffé “The Mission is a 1986 British film directed by Roland Joffé, starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally and Aidan Quinn in the lead roles, winner of several international film awards. To give a common thread to the drama of an era, he takes as a source of inspiration
“The music of chance” by Paul Auster “The Music of Chance is a strange, haunting parable from the pen of Paul Auster, one of America's contemporary authors. In 1993 the novel was made into a movie that, I think, is far more known than the book itself. Jim Nashe has taken to the wide-open
“Once a mouse” by Marcia Brown “A hermit knows the magic to change a small mouse into a cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger — and Marcia Brown's magical woodcuts bring this Indian fable to life with the mastery that won her second Caldecott Medal”. Extracted from the back cover of the issue. See also:
“Ragtime” by EL Doctorow “Ragtime is set in America at the beginning of this century (1900's). Its characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with people whose names are Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, JP Morgan, Evely Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, Emiliano Zapata. It is a novel so original, so full of imagination
“Days of a camera” by Néstor Almendros “After more than forty films as director of photography, Néstor Almendros is at the forefront of the professionals who have most influenced the renewal of the cinematographic image. More an assistant director than a lighting designer -as he defines himself-, Almendros personally handles the camera
“The Million Man March” directed by Spike Lee “Twenty men, very different from each other, but with one thing in common -the color of their skin-, travel across the country from Los Angeles to Washington DC, with the idea to be part of the Million Man March, a demonstration for
“Gala” by Dominique Bona “Who hasn't heard of Gala; whose name is today inseparable from that of Dalí? But how many know exactly who she was? ELENA DIAKONOVA was born in Russia in 1894. At the age of eighteen; she sick with tuberculosis; she was sent by her family to a luxurious sanatorium in switzerland. She there she giving herself to
“The buried mirror: reflections on Spain and the New World” by Carlos Fuentes PHOTO “This best-selling and lavishly illustrated history of Hispanic culture by the renowned novelist Carlos Fuentes is a unique history of the social, political and economic forces that created the remarkable culture that stretches from the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to
“Puppet master” by Joanne Owen “Puppet Master is Joanne Owen's first novel, and yet it feels timeless, like fairytales and fever dreams. Its territory is the high Gothic: not the watered-down, commercialized stuff, but the genuine article. Set in Prague in 1898, it most closely resembles the films of Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer and those