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ON BOOKS

In The Cafe Review

Tyehimba Jess's Olio 
C.D. Wright’s One With Others
Nick Lantz’s We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville
Stephanie Pippin’s The Messenger 

In the Portland Phoenix

Betsy Sholl’s Rough Cradle
Gibson Fay-Leblanc’s Death of a Ventriloquist
Jonathan Aldrich’s The Ring Road

ON FILM & Art

       In the Portland Phoenix

On Bill Morrison's ingenious found-footage documentary of a gold rush town, Dawson City: Frozen Time.
On Cristobal Leon and Joaquin Cocina’s haunting and shape-shifting stop-motion feature La Casa Lobo
On Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s scathing slasher-cum-colonialist critique Bacurau.
On Makoto Nagahisa’s deliciously stylized orphan phantasmagoria We Are Little Zombies.
On Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's formally dazzling Lesotho fable This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.
On Agnieszka Smoczynska’s horror-musical The Lure and its carnivorous mermaid sisters
On Raoul Peck's documentary portrait of James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro.

in The Chart

  Islands, flux, and migration in the short films Lampedusa and Sublunary, by Mariangela Ciccarello and Philip Cartelli.
Printmaker Terry Winters and Poet Mark Melnicove's collaborative sequence Sometimes times:                       Prints and poemsat Able Baker Contemporary.