Here are some audio stories I recommend, because they're so timelessly good.
Sound rich listening…Part II
Tag: Reviews
Review of The Cleaner on BBC/Britbox: therapy of sorts…
The first season of The Cleaner is the perfect binge on rainy weekends.
Review of SBS The Feed’s Sex in Japan: a new look at a disturbingly old problem
I think Sex in Japan: Dying for Company is a compassionate and insightful look at today's Japan.
Review of Drama-Sutra by Nautanki Theatre: Indian and Chindian stories
These three plays by South Asian diaspora playwrights Sonal Moore, Kevin Bathman and Roanna Gonsalves are so precious, and resonated with me.
Review of Glow Season 1 on Netflix: storytelling in the Trump era
GLOW is fabulous entertainment with crisp, witty dialogue and unexpectedly affecting poignant moments. Yet GLOW avoids being too earnestly up its own arse by being fun and just downright silly most of the time.
Review of Transparent Season 3: transcendent transgressions
The transgressions of the self absorbed, upper middle class Californian-Jewish Pfefferman clan makes my own dysfunctional family seem so excruciatingly banal.
Review of Nutshell by Ian McEwan: comico-erotic Hamlet
This book is, in my view, a return to McEwan's former storytelling brilliance.
Review of The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood: darkly inspiring
Written in a compelling dystopian tone, I appreciated the confidence author Charlotte Wood has in the reader to absorb her nuanced exploration of the complexities that make up the "female condition".
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