THE BEST OF ART, MUSIC, FILM AND LITERATURE // DROPPED WEEKLY
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THE BEST OF ART, MUSIC, FILM AND LITERATURE // DROPPED WEEKLY
Kamsie's novel reimagines the Greek tragedy 'Antigone' in the story of two British-Pakistani families divided over the fate of a rebel brother who has joined ISIS. The play's messy moral conflicts - of love and obligation, justice and law, family and country - are explored in modern London, in a layered tragedy of cultural tension and radicalisation.
The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg is a 2019 semi-autobiographical film that follows a shy yet ambitious young woman, played by Honor Swinton Byrne, as she tentatively begins film school in London in the 1980s.
This music drop comes from Jai Paul, an amazing, yet elusive, British electro, R&B, pop fusion artist from Rayners Lane in London.
Mudbound is a powerful generational story of race, family, class and trauma in Jim Crow America, at a time when young men from all classes and races were returning from war to find that the normal rules that were suspended abroad, still applied back home in rural Mississippi.
Today's drop features Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ, a Jamaican dub poet and activist. Born in Jamaica in 1952, he has lived in London since 1963. His politically-charged verse, written in transcribed Jamaican patois, is often performed over dub-reggae.
A musical collaboration between three UK artists; the rapper @slowthai, musician @jamesblake and the electronic duo @mountkimbie.
Good Morning, Midnight follows the escapades of Sasha Jansen, a middle-aged English woman returning to Paris after a prolonged absence. She brings with her the ghosts of an unhappy marriage, financial turmoil and the grief of losing a child.
"Based on an actual lie", we follow Billi, an NY-based writer who moved to the US when she was six but whose grandmother "Nai Nai" still lives in China and is recently found to be dying of stage four lung cancer.