Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It was an odd moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a...
Moms have a special name for lying: telling stories. We all engage in storytelling to get us out of tough situations. But only Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) keeps making films about the lies at the heart of modern life. This time his expose sounds like a confession...
The author of Prozac Nation, the autobiography of depression that spoke to a generation, returns now with More, Now, Again, her second memoir before reaching the age of 35. The book chronicles her descent into addiction and slow rise to recovery. In an age of perpetual confession and personal narratives...
She curls up in an armchair, more relaxed now, to return to the troubling topics of persona and confession. “If I only thought people could get some creepy thrill from it, that would be horrendous,” she muses, stroking her cat. “There...
A confession of weakness: the undersigned is a sucker for time-travel movies. Good, bad or indifferent, films that plop at least one character down in the wrong century--where his or her dress, customs and conversation befuddle and occasionally outrage the temporally challenged locals--always delight me.