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The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more

Howard Kapostash can't speak or write, but the narrator of Dave King's novel – a Vietnam veteran silenced by a head injury 30 years ago & #150; is a man of insight and feeling

Two rather different versions of 'A Christmas Carol' illustrate the power still to be tapped from Charles Dickens' ghostly little book

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Boston '69 revisited

Texas platters

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Texas platters

The 17th annual Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival: a preview

Afro-Canadian political activist, poet, and playwright Minister Faust's first novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad, begins at the end.

Our condemned cover artist makes his case

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Ballet East goes "Tribal" this weekend, using movement to explore issues of belonging, the ties that bind, and how tribes can lower us to barbarism or lift us to redemption

In this novel, Karnezis' ingenious, although ambiguous, framing device consists of repressing any sight or sound of the Turkish enemy as he describes the abbreviated anabasis of one Greek brigade in the Anatolian hinterlands.

What to see and when and where to see it at SXSW Film 04

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

Pro Arts Collective's Black Nativity isn't quite theatre and isn't quite church, but a celebratory presentation of both that includes glorious gospel music and the eloquence of Langston Hughes.

Critical response to Kill Bill ignores the current cultural resonance of cinematic vengeance.

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How a cult director translated a cult author to craft a surefire cult favor

Debut author Julie Orringer, who is 30, belies the old bromide that young people can't write about youth convincingly, and she'll be at BookPeople on Friday, Oct. 24.

We've seen the holy fool before, of course; perhaps we're well acquainted. In The Ecstatic -- the debut novel by Victor LaValle, who cannonballed into the young / urban / big-lit milieu with the award-winning short story collection Slapboxing With Jesus, made the PEN / Faulkner finalist list with this book, and, somewhere in there, got really fat and then thin again -- there are at least four, but first and foremost is Anthony James, 315-pound protagonist -- hero, maybe.

State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003

State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003

"Sherman Alexie might be going soft," writes Jessa Crispin of the author's new collection, Ten Little Indians. "Underneath the humor and adept storytelling of his previous novels and short story collections was always a thin line of rage. But now he's working with hope and redemption."

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