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Maybe it’s time we bring the two together and treat them as one fierce rivalry...
...that time, British subjects—by a rubber manufacturing company. The Peruvian Amazon Company, Casement found, was abusing not only its Barbadian employees, but also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement worked tirelessly to bring the man he considered responsible—the Peruvian rubber baron, Julio César Arana—to justice. In “The Devil and Mr. Casement,” British historian Jordan Goodman offers a dispassionate account of Casement’s struggle to expose...
...emotions, are too banal for Aciman’s trick to work, and the protagonist’s dense, slogging thoughts form a thicket of angst that paralyses the narrative. He despairingly thinks, “It occurred to me that rehearsing loss to dull the loss might bring about the very loss I was hoping to avert.” This constant act of stagnant, empty rehearsal is emblematic of the psychological development in the novel—the characters constantly strain towards expression, retracting or repeating statements, but never move towards a new idea or significant development...
...sometimes forgotten—joys of existence: the joy of a good meal with friends. By presenting audience members with several films related to food throughout the months of February and March, the organizers of ‘Food at 24fps’ have set out to bring together people of all walks of life, united by their common love for a satisfying meal...
...voice sounds more powerful than on most. The percussion is minimal—a tambourine shivering over the steady heartbeat of a kick drum. However, on most of the album’s tracks, particularly “Long Hard Road,” and “Bring Me Home,” the production isn’t enough to compensate for the weak songwriting and over-processed instruments, and the listener is left with an unoriginal track that feels vacuous and forced. Adu’s nuanced vocal performance seems, in the context of these songs, emotionless...