“Probably the tallest, thinnest, and oldest person in the group,” aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, author Geoff Dyer chronicles his adventures in snappily direct writing informed by a remarkably keen-eyed awareness of his surroundings. Grand
Yukio Mishimia's Patriotism and Wole Soyinka in Death and the King's Horseman inquire into the true depths of allegiance to death, one of a cause, the other of a king, and both more a reverently illuminated concept in the minds than the cool reality perceived by “civilized” Westerners.
One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. - Amazon
Enjoy an analysis of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," with colloquial paraphrasing following the original text.
A review and analysis of the 2002 Chinese film "Together," directed by Chen Kaige about—and starring—a talented young violinist.
This is the story of two men who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera and stayed friends for over 50 years.
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors. - IMDB
"Infernal Affairs" (2002) is a story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out which is the mole and which is the cop (IMDB 4/5).
As with much of Lahiri's work, "Unaccustomed Earth" considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment.
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand—IMDB. 3/5.