Blogs in August 2018

Still Lives 19th August 2018

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women–the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson,...

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A River of Stars 1st August 2018

Holed up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying...

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The Mars Room 25th July 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San...

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Beneath the Same Heaven 10th July 2018

Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani-born Muslim man, seem to have bridged the divide between Western and Islamic world views with their marriage and two American-born children. But everything changes when Rashid’s father is suddenly killed by...

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The Kitty Committee 8th July 2018

Every year, it comes. And every year, it reminds Grace that someone knows her deepest secret―the secret whose silence has tormented Grace over the years. That secret began with an innocent gang of teenage friends who called themselves The...

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