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\"Boxtrolls\"<\/a>

A still from Boxtrolls<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Reading a collection of letters from the beginning straight through to the end is one step up from reading the phone book. I know there are valuable bits throughout literary letters, but they\u2019re so often scattered among details like how much so-and-so paid for a ham sandwich and how hard it is to find a good Danish translator. So I have not read all of the third volume of Samuel Beckett\u2019s letters<\/a>, but I have nevertheless spent a good deal of time with it. The years 1957 through 1965 find Beckett at the height of his fame. He writes very soberly but with affection and appreciation, no matter the subject. In response to Robert Pinget\u2019s highly unfavorable reaction to\u00a0Comment\u00a0c\u2019est<\/em>, Beckett writes,\u00a0\u201cI am grateful to you for being so frank. That is friendship.\u201d My favorite parts in the letters are the seemingly rare moments in which Beckett seems to loosen up, as when he writes to the radio producer and translator Barbara Bray, with whom he was close, \u201cBought six pairs of socks today in the Wednesday market. Very colourful. Not the socks. 5 francs a pair.\u201d Or, in another letter to Bray, \u201cStill drunk this morning after sudden hopeless useless midnight bucket of brandy and sitting in special ever since 37 pub and have yours to hand and in head grinding old poem in vain by H\u00f6lderlin influences entitles Dieppe<\/em>\u00a0circa 37 also \u2026\u2009\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was appalled to learn from The New Yorker<\/em> today<\/a> of a London pop-up restaurant called Death Row Dinners, which will, for fifty quid, \u201cincarcerate\u201d you at \u201cone of London\u2019s toughest high-security restaurants, where our prison chefs serve up a five-course feast of their culinary twists on some of death row\u2019s most interesting and popular last dinners.\u201d It\u2019s not that I find the concept tasteless\u2014it\u2019s that I thought of it first<\/a>, two years ago, in a satirical essay about food and death. I was all set to litigate, but then I kept reading that New Yorker<\/em> piece: turns out Death Row Dinners was deemed so offensive that the organizers shut it down, apparently after they were subjected to \u201cseriously threatening behavior.\u201d Still, I don\u2019t want to miss out on any future business opportunities, so I\u2019ll just go ahead and toot my own horn here: I had two other great restaurant ideas in my essay. One was Admiral O\u2019Heimlich\u2019s, a surf and turf pub where community actors feign asphyxia and the waitstaff teaches you how to save choking victims. The other was Turks and Cake-os, a turkey and cake shoppe kept at tropical temperatures and lit exclusively by sunlamps. I\u2019m willing to speak to investors about either, or both. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do the imaginative side of yourself a favor and go see Laika\u2019s latest handmade creation<\/a>,\u00a0The Boxtrolls<\/em>, which\u00a0opens tonight nationwide. The film, based on Alan Snow\u2019s\u00a0Here Be Monsters!<\/em>, is at times dark, at times heartwarming, and visually stunning all throughout\u2014especially when you consider that a vast majority of the film, like its predecessors Coraline<\/em> and ParaNorman<\/em>, is painstakingly animated<\/a>. (Full disclosure: my sister, Emelia, is one of the artists who designs and builds the puppets.) \u2014Stephen A. Hiltner<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a Bard alumna, it would be unforgivably rude of me not to mention Alice Gregory\u2019s magnificent profile on Leon Botstein, the president of the college, in this week\u2019s\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>. In \u201cPictures from an Institution<\/a>,\u201d Gregory,\u00a0a former Bardian herself,\u00a0asks a question not unfamiliar to those who regard Leon as a beau ideal of intellectualism and progressive action: What is Bard without Botstein? He has, after all, \u201cbuilt [it] in his own polymath image,\u201d and since he\u2019s sixty-seven\u2014having started as president in 1975, at age twenty-seven\u2014the question of institutional identity is more pressing than ever. But Gregory doesn\u2019t, can\u2019t possibly, answer this. Instead, she shows us Botstein\u2019s idiosyncratic mind. He is an educator; a father; an admirer of horology; a conductor; a raconteur; a man who used to be a boy who stuttered and was called\u00a0Durachyok<\/em>, or little fool; and the face not only of Bard but Bard\u2019s Prison Initiative, a program that admits and awards college degrees to inmates. Gregory\u2019s profile renders Botstein so well that we worry about Bard\u00a0all the more acutely after reading it. \u2014Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week, I heard an engaging production<\/a> of Beckett\u2019s 1959 radio play Embers<\/em><\/a> at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The experience compelled me to revisit What Where<\/em><\/a> (1983), the last of Beckett\u2019s dramatic works, which he wrote first in French, and then translated himself into German and English. Typically read, in part, as a sharp critique of totalitarianism, the short play features four \u201ccharacters\u201d\u2014Bam, Bem, Bim, and Bom\u2014\u201cas alike as possible,\u201d who engage in a series of interrogations, led by Bam, that allude to torture off-stage but which ultimately produce no knowledge or truth of any kind. What Where<\/em> is well situated among Beckett\u2019s other late minimalist pieces, such as Quad<\/em><\/a>, Nacht und Tr\u00e4ume<\/em>, and Breath<\/em><\/a>, and within his oeuvre at large: like so much of Beckett, it chips away at language until only its smallest pieces remain. At the end of its fruitless interrogations, Bam\u2019s disembodied voice says all that it, or any of us, can: \u201cTime Passes. That is all. Make sense who may.\u201d \u2014Charles Shafaieh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vine\u2014yes, the app\u2014is known mainly for its emerging pseudo celebrities and teenage Beiber wannabes, but I personally love it for the bizarre nonsense its six-second format allows. Some of the best Vine videos look like a cross between a Tim & Eric sketch and those compelling (if senseless) installation videos you see at certain galleries and museums. Birthday Salad<\/a>\u2019s collection of six-second loops is mesmerizing, a mix of old and obscurely sourced videos scored by leftovers from the Boohbah<\/a><\/em> sound track. A bunny grooving in the moon<\/a>? Tennis-playing airplane stewardess<\/a>? Whatever this is<\/a>? The genius behind the Birthday Salad account is no longer posting videos, by the look of it, but there are plenty of other moody masterpieces out there\u2014enough to keep you entertained for days. \u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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