Toronto novelist and memoirist Den Hartog turns to non-fiction to examine the affects of war on ordinary lives, revealing the history of the city s Christie Street Hospital
Toronto novelist and memoirist Den Hartog turns to non-fiction to examine the affects of war on ordinary lives, revealing the history of the city s Christie Street Hospital
This remarkable, if slightly flawed, ticking-timebomb of movie by John Frankenheimer, one of Hollywood’s finest old-school directors and a pioneer of the modern-day political thriller, wasn't well received when released in 1977. At a distance of decades, and especially after the 9/11 massacres, its prescience in foreseeing a painstakingly orchestrated terror attack on American soil is, like the film itself, much easier to appreciate
Alix E. Harrow's Starling House depicts a dying, fictional coal town's horrors and dark past. Harrow joins a long tradition of authors writing Gothic fiction as a way to process the ills of society.
As Poole states in his preface, “There lives, somewhere in our psyches where it has crouched on its haunches since the earliest human experience, a yearning for the taboo and the terrible.” Using Ray Bradbury’s phrase “dark carnival” throughout to refer to both media productions and the military-Capitalism that structures American lives, Poole claims that while we may want our “dark carnivals” to be places to visit “desired only because we can leave”—we are trapped, “denizen(s) of the dark carnival.”