Watchmen,
The Killing Joke, and
V for Vendetta is moving into the world of prose with a series of five fantasy novels about a larger-than-life version of Britain s capital city.
Moore s
Long London which will comprise a series of five books is set to be published by Bloomsbury (owner of the U.K. rights to the
Harry Potter series) sometime in 2024. The deal also includes a collection of short stories entitled
Illuminations, which is arriving a little bit sooner in 2022. The writer is no stranger when it comes to hopping between different creative mediums. Last year, Moore wrote and starred in
Book Discussion: Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel
Book Discussion: Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel
May 4 at 7:00 PM
In 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he s moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her, she presents Tomás with a way to prove himself. As always, he ll do anything for Isabel. But what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both?
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Covid Mitigations and the Kewanee Public Library
With ever-changing mitigations still underway, you may have been wondering what that means for your local library. No matter where we are in the mitigations, the Kewanee Public Library is still operating as before. We are open 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday and 9 am to 1 pm on Saturdays. We do ask that you continue to treat us as an “In and Out” Library, staying only as long as necessary and no longer than an hour. Masks continue to be required and must be worn covering your nose and mouth.
Greetings from our ongoing pandemic, where we’re all a little bit of Mads Mikkelsen in the Danish dramedy “Another Round.” I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, culture and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, rounding up the week’s essential art news and satirical architecture speak:
Minimalism, but make it tingle
For her graduate show at
UCLA in 1971,
Karen Carson presented a series of works that consisted of simple geometric pieces of fabric sometimes produced in two or three tones that were bound together by zippers. These were pinned to a wall and could be manipulated by viewers who were invited to open and close the zippers, changing the shape of the piece in the process.
Closure for a Sister Disappeared
Novelist Daniel Loedel recounts the story of his older half-sister Isabel, who was disappeared in Argentina during the Dirty War, “the period from 1976 to 1983 in which the U.S.-backed military dictatorship kidnapped and killed tens of thousands of supposed dissidents in the name of fighting off communism.” In this harrowing piece at
Here we must pull back the curtain, listen to what’s behind the silence. First, the cultural reasons: Although Argentina’s military dictatorship technically lasted only seven years, from 1976 to 1983, they were the bloodiest in the nation’s history, and few except the junta leaders themselves were put in prison. For years, people continued to encounter their former torturers at bus stations, their rapists in cafés. For years, the armed forces maintained power at a distance, with complete immunity. For years, there were no formal funerals for the disappeared.