Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie), Laura Piani’s first feature, is a French cinematic contribution to the celebratory chorus attending the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. It tells the story of Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford), a thirtysomething Parisian and aspiring writer who works at the English- language bookshop Shakespeare […]

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Rebecca Saunders was always waiting to write an opera. For years, she has been signalling in her titles an attachment to Samuel Beckett (Stirrings Still, That Time), but without setting a word. In 2017, an old fixation on Molly Bloom’s monologue in Ulysses resulted in a work running for almost ninety minutes and inevitably entitled […]

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The title of the first of Vivek Shanbhag’s novels to be translated into English from Kannada, in 2018, was a phrase coined by its characters: “ghachar ghochar” describes both the messy entanglements of family life and the impossibility of unknotting them. “Sakina’s kiss”, too, is a locution that leads us into thickets of mystery and […]

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Ambulances responded to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey on Wednesday for possible overdoses involving multiple people. The Downey Fire Department told KTLA they were called out to the facility in the 7200 block of Quill Drive just before 8:45 a.m. Early reports indicated that multiple people may be suffering from overdoses, though the specific […]