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...after “Good Man,” Ritter touches on the traditional story of the wandering man’s bittersweet remorse in “Best for the Best.” While the tracks here don’t deal exclusively with the stereotypical singer/songwriter subject matter, he is after all still a singer/songwriter: the disc is dominated by tales of music and love, sprinkled with religion, politics and literary references to Shakespeare, classic poetry, and the Bible. Ritter also dashes in instrumentation unexpected for his genre, and with an impressive act of arrangement, it works...
...says. “How did I, as a girl who grew up in Calcutta, know English? Why did so many writers in India choose to write in English?” Sen began working at Harvard in fall of 1999, teaching courses in a subject area she ironically describes (in reference to the English intellectual Stuart Hall’s division of the world into “The West and the Rest”) as “the literature of the Rest.” Though Sen is often identified as a postcolonial scholar, she is wary...
...photographs are notable for their many iterations of the photographer-subject negotiation. While Peruvians were no strangers to photography at the time, cameras were scarce in Ayacucho and the act of photography was conspicuous. It was impossible for Alejos, with his large-format camera, to be unnoticed by his subjects...
Alejos’ best photographs succeed for reasons as diverse as his subject matter. Lighting is what makes “San Juan de Dios Hospital” a great photograph—the sun comes from three large windows, bounces off the plaster walls, and illuminates each immaculate hospital bed with gradually increasing intensity towards the back of the room. As the hospital beds recede, the hospital employees arc out from the rear of the room towards us, and their dress changes from the dark suits in the rear to white robes in the front...
...Kingdom,” Thomas unleashes this team on the urgent subject of terrorism. It is May 30, 1884, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a terrorist organization working to liberate the Emerald Isle from British rule, has just detonated a bomb at Scotland Yard. Barker and Llewelyn immediately offer their services to the government and infiltrate a secretive IRB faction, posing as a German bomb maker and his assistant. They must work to earn the group’s trust while preparing to stop its ultimate plan to bring London to its knees—without concern for innocent...