Новости за 03.04.2017

The big new release of last week was Ghost in the Shell, and Tim and Will actively disagree on it, though neither can dispute that critics of its “whitewashing” have a point. But you should probably just watch Under the Skin instead.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that aims to unravel former President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy and may torpedo America’s promises under the Paris Agreement to help reduce global warming. In an implicit rebuke of Trump, some of the country’s richest companies issued statements reaffirming their commitment to fighting climate change.

This is how the book begins, as so many sagas in the Middle East do: Panic on the way to the airport. Praying your name doesn’t show up on a no-fly list. Dr. Bassem Youssef writes: “Destination: Dubai. Destiny: Unknown.” His crime? Making people laugh.

In Niki Caro’s adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, the protagonist listens in fascination and horror, as Lutz Heck—a German zoologist, director of the Berlin and Munich zoos and avid game hunter—describes tracking a lioness in the wild and shooting it. It is 1939, and Antonina Żabińska (played by Jessica Chastain) lives in the grounds of the zoo she ran with her husband in Warsaw before the outbreak of World War Two. A man who would become a friend of Herman Göring, Heck is simply... Читать дальше...

At first glance, the president and vice president might seem like polar opposites in their relationship to women. Donald Trump is a libertine who has described his sexual promiscuity as his “personal Vietnam” and boasted that the privileges of celebrity allowed him to grab women by their genitals, while Mike Pence is a committed evangelical who, like others of his faith, abides by strict rules of sexual propriety. As a much-discussed Washington Post profile last week noted, “In 2002, Mike Pence... Читать дальше...

It is difficult to pinpoint precisely when Joan Didion ceased to be a contemporary writer in the public imagination and began to be converted into a saint of the literary canon. It may have started in 2011 or 12 after the publication of her memoir Blue Nights, which brought renewed interest in her personal life, culminating over the next several years in two biographies, a crowdfunding campaign for a documentary, and a turn modeling for Celine. This last event, in particular, indicated Didion’s sudden return to prominence... Читать дальше...