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Donât think yourself odd if, after reading the Danish writer Tove Ditlevsenâs romantic, spiritually macabre, and ultimately devastating collection of memoirs, âThe Copenhagen Trilogyâ (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), you spend hours, if not days, in a reverie of alienation. Itâs because the author, who died by her own hand in 1976, when she was fifty-eight, makes profound and exciting art out of estrangement. Like a number of dispassionate, poetic modernistsâthe writers Jean Rhys and Octavia Butler, say, or the visual artists Alice Neel and Diane ArbusâDitlevsen was marked, wounded, by her own sharp intelligence. Her worldâthe world she describes in âChildhood,â âYouth,â and âDependency,â the three short books that make up the trilogyâwas cash poor, emotionally mean, and misogynist. The sun must have shone sometimes in Denmark before and during the Second World War, but the atmosphere in
‘The Last Queen’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab
Fiction is the medium of a saga of a woman that history has not given enough importance to. Jindan Kaur | By George Richmond / Public Domain
When Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni had announced the title of her latest novel on her Facebook page and asked fans to guess who the titular queen could be, the answers had ranged from Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and Rani Chennamma of Karnataka to the Tuluva queen Abbakka Chowta of Ullal (present day Mangaluru), and even a vague “anyone from the family of Bahadur Shah Zafar”. So the Indian-American author’s decision to bring story of Rani Jindan Kaur of Punjab to the world as the heroine of her latest novel,
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We open with the gentle sounds of another bop of a theme song from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the Oscar-winning duo behind songs from the
Coco. While the inspiration is obvious there are musical nods to both the B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes song “As Long as We Got Each Other” from
Growing Pains as well as the Deniece Williams and Johnny Mathis love song “Without Us” that opened
Family Ties the lyrics hold some keen and very current insight into Wanda’s world.
We’ve said before that Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s
Shin Ultraman design of the beloved Tokustatsu hero doesn’t look all that much different than his classic ‘60s counterpart, but that’s not going to stop Bandai from releasing a new action figure of him. The sparsely accessorized figure comes with a few alternate hands for posing and that’s about it, but it does a great job of translating the upcoming film’s lanky, distinctly
off-looking take on Ultraman really well nonetheless. And what else do you need it to do, really? The figure’s out in Japan this summer, for about $48. [TNI]
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