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...The Princess is Polynesian rather than French; Melanie-Joyce Bermudez plays her as sweet, mirthful and, when the situation commands it, imposing....
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...In Everett’s Erasure, the main narrative frame is disrupted by surreal conversations between Derrida and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Wilde, symbolic contemplations on carpentry and fishing....
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...In Lumule he was reunited with Joyce and, soon after, his mother. Says Okwera: “She [felt] like [she’d] missed out on my entire life.”...
...In its title and cocksure pose, “Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self” recalls James Joyce’s photograph on the Penguin edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
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...Schilling’s concern for privacy extends to his own personal life....
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...That’s just life.” Her next project is about anger....
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