Both intimate and politically urgent, Late Shift, by the Swiss director Petra Volpe, captures a nurse’s ordinary hospital shift on a Swiss surgical ward. We quickly come to see, however, that ordinary does not exist in that world. Thanks in no small part to the understated emotional precision and physical intensity of the lead actor, […]
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Halfway through this fascinating novel – a fictionalized biography of the (real-life) Spanish librarian María Moliner (1900–81) – the fifty-year-old protagonist has a flash of inspiration. Reading alone at home, Moliner stands up to consult her copy of the “official” dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy and check the definition of a word. Unconvinced by […]
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