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TV PICKS 02.11.24

Occasionally the music gods can loop your past into your present in a way you could never have anticipated. One of those impossible moments happened at the end of May when I heard South African producer Fka Mash’s remix of Everything But The Girl’s Caution To The Wind.

In January of 2022, a UK-based independent investigative firm called Stoke White Investigations revealed that one of its clients, Karim, had been tortured while in detention in Kashmir. Reports of arbitrary detentions and torture by the Indian military against Kashmiris are not uncommon in the Indian-occupied region. But Karim’s description of his interrogators was peculiar: They were not of Indian origin, he alleged, but white and spoke with US accents. They seemed to show little interest in his activities in Kashmir or his stances on domestic issues. They were instead curious about his vie...

Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel “Kairos” folds intimations of German history and cultural memory into a torrid romance.

Apple says its AI voices for audiobooks are "natural sounding" and "based on a human narrator," but some critics argue they're not what customers want.