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Where do I start with\u00a0The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl<\/i><\/a>? The latest film from Masaaki Yuasa is a beautifully bonkers,\u00a0Ulysses<\/i>-esque\u00a0rendering of a single night in Kyoto. Its shapeless, sneaky plot\u2014plot? nested series of absurdities?\u2014follows the titular girl on her quest to drink everything in town. Simple, right? In this world, though, a single night can be turned sideways, shaken out like a picnic blanket, transformed by the light, accordioned out to reveal endless mysteries nestled in the interstices between minutes and moments. The difficulty in describing this movie is that something new is always happening, and it is always happening in vivid color.\u00a0The preppy director of the school festival runs a complicated surveillance system that follows students\u2019 every action from birth. A man named Don Underwear refuses to change his skivvies until he once again meets the woman of his dreams\u2014with whom he locks eyes at the exact moment apples fall from trees and bonk both of them on the head. A tiny god with an ice cream cone raids a black-market literary auction and frees the books, which take to the air, scatter like pigeons, and alight on the shelves of a nearby used-book fair. I left the theater certain that everything is connected and life is beautiful\u2014the sorts of platitudes you think when you\u2019ve somehow stumbled your way into that rarest of things: a perfect night out. Roll your eyes all you want\u2014you\u2019ll thoroughly understand my joy once you\u2019ve experienced the rush of a single long, short night bouncing around in Masaaki Yuasa\u2019s head.\u00a0\u2014Brian Ransom<\/strong>
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We are getting closer to a reality in which machines are better at being human than we are. Artificially intelligent beings can recognize faces, hold conversations, and learn faster than they have ever before\u2014and yet while we humans are constantly connected, we are losing touch with each other. Fast forward to Japan in the year 2029, where Andromeda Romano-Lax sets her novel,\u00a0Plum Rains<\/em><\/a>. An infertility epidemic has knocked humanity off its precarious balance; all over the world, children have become a precious resource, while wealthy countries are inundated with elderly in need of caregivers. It is an age in which nurses, maids, pets, and companions come in boxes, ready for assembly, because there simply aren\u2019t enough workers to go around. The story of\u00a0Plum Rains <\/em>follows a human caregiver, a Filipina immigrant named Angelica, whose job (caring for a very secretive centenarian named Sayoko) is jeopardized by a new social bot built for listening, learning, and providing better company than any human possibly can. Threatened by the bot\u2019s ability to decode Sayoko\u2019s behavior, Angelica clings to her own humanity, until, gradually, she realizes that in a world so dependent on machines, \u201cno job, role, or relationship [is] safe.\u201d In\u00a0Plum Rains<\/em>, the world that Romano-Lax engineers is a character in itself, impossibly complex and daunting in its believability. \u2014Madeline Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal\u201d seems an easy enough statement to agree upon, but in her sweeping new These Truths: A History of The United States<\/a><\/em>, Jill Lepore looks for moments in our history where these words were questioned, confused, and clarified: \u201cWho are we<\/em>? What is true<\/em>? What counts as evidence<\/em>,\u201d (italics mine) she asks. Who counts as men and what does equal mean? For most of us, these have easy answers, but Lepore probes the way the nation has answered them through laws, politics, wars, and free press. These Truths<\/em> sheds a special light on the disenfranchised, but it\u2019s by no means a redo of Howard Zinn\u2019s A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em>;\u00a0in Lepore\u2019s hands, history doesn\u2019t need revision as much as a full accounting\u2014it\u2019s the interaction between the dominant and subordinate that tell the story here\u2014and for that reason, this ambitious tome often paints a grim picture of our past and present. The ways in which we\u2019ve bungled the answers to these questions\u2014what does equal mean?\u2014and the ways we haven\u2019t, tells the story of America\u2019s triumphs and failures, they are, whether we like it or not, a portrait of American character, it\u2019s prejudices, it\u2019s compassions, and, I think Lepore would agree, it\u2019s staggering tenacity.\u00a0\u2014Jeffrey Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing quite like encountering a truly villainous character in cinema, and the nameless woman in Monte Hellman’s 1966 Western\u00a0The Shooting<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is one of those characters. As soon as she arrives on the horizon, still and hidden in dusky shadow, a chill radiates from her even under the high-noon desert sun. This film is as spare as the desert it\u2019s set in; the woman (played impeccably by Millie Thompson) hires two bounty hunters to take her across the desert on a mysterious manhunt mission. Jack Nicholson makes an appearance as her nearly silent sidekick with a lightning fast draw. Usually devilishly charismatic, Nicholson here plays his character with reserve, smart enough to know not to compete with the devilish charisma coming in spades from Thompson.\u00a0The Shooting<\/em>\u00a0is a part of Anthology’s Women of the West<\/a> series, and is screening again on Sunday. \u2014Lauren Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n

How can fiction and the personal essay operate as distinct categories when \u201chonesty\u201d and the \u201cconfessional\u201d have become synonymous with quality prose? In Brad Phillips\u2019s first collection,\u00a0Essays and Fictions<\/em>, the distinction evaporates. The unassuming title ingeniously excuses us from ever considering what\u2019s fact or fib in these eleven pieces, which is the precise pleasure of the collection: everything, under the auspices of the title, becomes true psychologically. And yet despite the immense pleasure I take in Phillips\u2019s writing, it\u2019s hard to \u201crecommend\u201d these essays in the conventional sense. They include things such as: a father accidentally hiring his estranged daughter as a prostitute; a sex addict with an opioid problem who can rarely orgasm; a man who murders a Salvation Army worker while his young daughters watch. It can be almost too much; Phillips\u2019s inner world makes\u00a0Last Exit to Brooklyn<\/em>\u00a0look like\u00a0The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>. Then there\u2019s his organization. He can move from so many subject matters in a single essay that you\u2019ve forgotten where he began, yet at the end he welds it all together in a single paragraph, like a psychoanalyst ending a session. Perhaps, like me, you\u2019ve asked yourself how many more books we need that find their subject in sex, drugs, mental illness, and their role in shaping the author\u2019s experiences. But we needed one from Brad Phillips. If you want real grit and honesty in an essayist\u2014as opposed to the self-aggrandizement that \u201ccreative nonfiction\u201d culture has popularized\u2014then preorder this book immediately. \u2014Ben Shields<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1514, Albrecht D\u00fcrer engraved<\/a> a winged female figure, face shadowy, stare vacant, shoulders slumped.\u00a0Surrounded by a panoply of tools and objects relating to carpentry and geometry, she is entirely indifferent. She is the personification of melancholia\u2014sunk in herself, gazing blindly past the harmonic richness of existence. The engraving is wonderful, though melancholia is somewhat remote to the emotional palette of 21st<\/sup> century life. We have different ideals of feeling and anxieties, and we have our own images of personification\u2014reaction GIFs, memes, snippets of video. Tiny representative dramas. One I revisit at the open of every NFL season, as a sort of memento mori<\/em>, is a 15-second tale of a routine mistake cascading into public humiliation with the self-fulfilling inexorability of Greek tragedy known as The Butt Fumble<\/a>. Thanksgiving 2012, a nationally televised game between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots. It is early in the second quarter, and the are Jets down by 14 points. Their quarterback is Mark Sanchez\u2014Southern Californian, handsome, coolly calm, and congenitally unlikable in New York for precisely those qualities. A run play is called, and Sanchez turns to give the ball to the fullback, only to turn the wrong way and miss him entirely. Looking up, he finds himself abandoned with the football. An unremarkable error, but then, with the best intentions, attempting to salvage the play, he seals his infamy. Sanchez spins around and runs it himself, taking about five steps until, unexpectedly, he collides face-first with the ass of his offensive lineman and plummets in a single frozen motion, the way someone slips on ice, the way a statue topples from its plinth. The ball pops out, grabbed by a Patriot who skips untouched into the end zone. Sanchez makes a feeble lunge for the ball, glimpses it riding away, and lets his helmet drop to the turf. The abjection is total. A season later Sanchez would be cut from the Jets, never to be a full-time starting quarterback again. On television the analyst Cris Collinsworth guffaws, the mask of broadcaster impartiality slipping for a brief moment, and then, in pity, mutters to himself \u201cOh no<\/em>\u201d. Laugh now, I tell myself, but shiver, for one day you might be Mark Sanchez, stunned, pressing your face to the dirt. \u2014Matt Levin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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