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The Paris Review: The Flagellants, the American writer Carlene Hatcher Polite’s debut novel, is one of those out-of-print books that’s been lurking in the corner of my eye for the past few years. First published by Christian Bourgois éditeur as  Les Flagellants in Pierre Alien’s 1966 French translation, and then in its original English the following year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book details the stormy relationship between Ideal and Jimson, a Black couple in New York City. The narrative is largely made up of a series of stream of consciousness orations. Polite’s prose is f...

Eyes wide open at Stanley Kubrick, a giant of the cinema We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Eyes wide open at Stanley Kubrick, a giant of the cinema By Tom Ryan Normal text size Yale University Press, $45.99 The best chapter in David Mikics’ biographical sketch of Stanley Kubrick and his work is the first. There, his judicious outline of the late writer-director’s preoccupations comes with a rush: “[M]ost Kubrick movies are about rebellion of some kind”; “His movies are about mastery that fails”; “A Kubrick movie is often a high...