Written, Directed, Edited, and Produced by Julie Delpy 2007, 96 minutes. Starring: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy 2 Days in Paris is a penetrating, wry, and at times terrifying film about a visit by a young couple to Paris. This is no honeymoon. The pheromones have worn off and the excitement of …
After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Knopf, 2007, 175 pages. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. The celebrated Japanese writer Haruki Murakami reveals himself to be human with the technically innovative but ultimately unsatisfying novel After Dark. This short work depicts the interweaving narratives of several late night Tokyo denizens afflicted by insomnia, jazz, and …
My next post is a short story about a journalist attempting to penetrate a notorious Cape Town minibus taxi gang. The story emerged from my conflict resolution research into the Cape Town gangs, whose bosses rule entire neighborhoods and are not afraid to get into gun battles with the police. Four Lions was first published …
My second post is an article that documents the attempt by the Mountain Club of South Africa to apologize for its discriminatory policies during apartheid. But apologizing in post-apartheid South Africa is not nearly as simple as it seems. The article features a number of interviews with climbers and analyzes the apology through the lens …
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