Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (the strangely named duo behind Avant Kinema) were responding to an invitation from the AHRC-funded projectImprints of the New Modernist Editingin 2019, which would have resulted in an exhibition at Shandy Hall, home of the Laurence Sterne Trust, but the Covid-1...
and the contradictions inherent in all of humanity. The narrator is an unnamed Palestinian woman trying to survive the grime of New York City while teaching at an all-boys prep school. From the outset, we learn that our narrator is haunted both by dirt and by a coin she swallowed as a ...
London, January 1836: Just weeks before the release of his first book, Charles is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. But his initiation in a basement maze takes a wicked turn when he stumbles upon the corpse of Samuel Pickwick, the club’s president. With the...
“An exercise in participatory journalism had become an obsession,” he writes about his months in his parents' basement, wearing earmuffs and black-painted goggles to block distractions as he practised building his own memory palaces. Along the way to his triumph — in which he memorized the...
Book Review Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest by Carolina Ciucci In Chuck Rosenthal’s provocative novel "Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest", a girl explores her connection to the Romantic poets. Beatriz does unpaid work cataloging books in a basement library. There, the rows of books serve...
cabin. In the basement are files related to a mysterious tragedy, unsolved since 1998. What secrets was Felicia hiding? How much of what Yara knows about her family has been true?The deeper Yara digs for answers, the more she fears that Felicia was right. Uncovering the truth about what ...
the daughter of one of his wife’s old friends, staying with the Ashbys temporarily, is found strangled in her bedroom, that artificial link becomes brittle. See, the problem is that Ashby was working in the basement, turning a piece of furniture on his lathe, at the time that Belle must...
Frank Weber is a forensic psychologist who has completed assessments for homicide, sexual assault, and domestic abuse cases. His work has ranged from assessing murderers chained to the cement floor in the basement of a prison and assessing psychopaths to providing therapy for wealthy professionals wh...
The lake house owned by Anton’s family is a perfect setting and checks off plenty of creepy elements – a locked basement door, footsteps in the unoccupied attic, thick swarms of bugs outside, a nonfunctional dumbwaiter, and disembodied voices to name a few. My horror loving heart was al...
The audience meets her as she searches a basement-like chamber. It is filled with objects and recordings illustrative of her time on Earth. The recent pain of failing to complete basic tasks, a telltale sign of the chronic condition which is now overtaking her, and the blissful nostalgia of...