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Books

The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère

The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère

Book of the Month for June 2017

Records

Orography of the low lands

Orography of the low lands

John Grant maps in Pale Green Ghosts the lows of a break-up. With lucid precision and brutal honesty, the artist takes us on a deeply emotional, sometimes funny and always inspired journey through each and every stage of grief.

Film

A Brief History of Time (in Cinema)

A Brief History of Time (in Cinema)

If you’re looking for big bangs, singularities or other forms of Stephen Hawking’s wry wit you’re in the wrong place. We do want to talk about time, though. Cinematic time that is. We want to talk about the evolution of its treatment from the early pioneers to, what we think it’s a game changer, Richard Linklater’s masterpiece “Boyhood”.

Books

When dandies cry

When dandies cry

Here at The Wild Detectives, we usually talk about authors that have been published in English. Let’s honour our selection of Literature written in Spanish for a change by reviewing “Ya sólo habla de amor” (He Just Speaks About Love Now) from Spanish author Ray Loriga.

Books

Summertime, an anti-autobiography by J.M. Coetzee

Summertime, an anti-autobiography by J.M. Coetzee

Nobel prize J.M. Coetzee writes a self-lacerating fictionalised memoir in which he portrays himself as a worthless piece of shit.

Records

Merriweather Post Pavilion, a Post-Contemporary Master Piece

Merriweather Post Pavilion, a Post-Contemporary Master Piece

It’s difficult for me to talk about this album. It’s too vast. It never ends. It hijacks you into a sonic roller coaster and it spits you out at the end of the trip, while you still wonder what the f*ck has just happened. With Merriweather Post Pavillion you’re never in control.

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