Art with Strangers

The story I picked is "The Snowbank" by Shelagh Power-Chopra and the very concept--taken from a life event Shelagh read about evidently--is exquisite: a man finds himself stuck in a snowbank. [Read more] Recently:    Checking In With Metazen    Fictionaut Five: Michael Kimball    Luna Digest, 3/9 […]

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Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence  after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]