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Empathy Is Cheap: A Conversation with Brandon Harris

  • Lauren Wissot
  • August 2, 2017
Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
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The Rumpus Review of The Light Between Oceans

  • Peri Unver
  • October 6, 2016
I wanted so badly to invest in the characters, to cry and feel their pain, but I felt detached.
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The Rumpus Review of 12 Years A Slave

  • Ade Adeniji
  • November 18, 2013
In 12 Years a Slave, a period piece transforms into drama without distance and intellectual arguments about slavery’s connection to the present.
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Hitchcock’s “Man from the South”

  • Graham Todd
  • June 28, 2012
There are lots of things to be happy about today. For instance, Open Culture unearthed Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark short story “Man from the South” starring a…
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The Rumpus Review of Hunger

  • Matt Singer
  • April 5, 2009
Being locked in a tiny prison cell for years on end, with nothing but a blanket and piles of your own waste for company, makes a man very attuned to…
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