Review of ‘event TV’ from 2021
Tag Archives: dystopia
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
Servant of the People (Ukrainian TV show)
I watched Zelenskiy’s “Servant of the People”, and I’m glad I did
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
An International Booker Prize-shortlisted dystopian novel
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (1924-93, Japan)
A 1962 Japanese classic work of absurdist dystopia from Kobo Abe
A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet (USA)
An often acerbic dystopian novel by US author Lydia Millet
International Reads (and Views) for a Lockdown
Much of the world is locked down as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, and normal routines have been dramatically changed. I’m finding it hard to concentrate on things I usually love, which include watching films (preferably at the cinema) and reading voraciously. Here are a few thematic ideas for books and films that might …
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Review no 23: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (Canada)
It had to be done – ticking off my Canadian female writer with my take on Margaret Atwood’s blockbusting ‘The Testaments’
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 