Mark Kennedy AP – Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 saluted men with the right stuff – quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he’s returned to that magic number for a similar rescue tale but traded the vastness of space for a film deep underground. Thirteen Lives is a dramatisation of what […]
AMARAH, IRAQ (AFP) – She’s southern Iraq’s celebrity photographer, a former political prisoner who has spent more than 60 years behind the lens documenting people and places and defying convention. Samira Mazaal is 77 and still going strong more than half a century after turning to photography to feed her family because she had no […]
Hamilton Cain THE WASHINGTON POST – Meet Paul, the protagonist of Teddy Wayne’s bland, static new work, The Great Man Theory. Aged 46, he’s published longform essays on esoteric topics while holding down a job as a writing lecturer at a middling New York college. He’s a bundle of contradictions, assertive in his Marxist views […]