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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Anne Fadiman
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, January 23, 2015
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down makes a strong case for cultural understanding as a first step in medical treatment. It should be required reading for anyone working in a big city hospital or a smaller community with a large immigrant population. As the mother of a child with intractable epilepsy, it was distressing to witness the little girl's deterioration, but I understood why her parents would not - or could not - comply with her doctor's orders. It's also weirdly comforting for me to see other cultures taking a positive view of seizures, coming from a place where they are seen only as affliction and disability.
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Dungeon: Twilight - Vol. 4: The End of Dungeon
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Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim
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, January 12, 2015
Mon Dieu. The final episode of Dungeon? How can it be? If this series were live action it would be Game of Thrones, but as rendered in graphic novel format by the mighty French team of Joann Sfar & Lewis Trondheim (aided by the occasional visiting cartoonist), it is a strange and hilarious romp featuring a cast of cute animals, mutants and monsters. Skulls pile up, eyeballs pop, elves get stomped left and right... but give or take a few sex scenes featuring a zaftig, bird-beaked cat princess in Elizabethan gown and her scrawny red rabbit lover, it's (almost) suitable for kids! My kid, anyway... He got hold of my copies when he was about 8 and wouldn't stop reading... At the heart of the story is the friendship between Marvin, a dutiful dragon guarding the for-profit dungeon, and Herbert, a duck with delusions of grandeur. I mean at the heart of the story is the love between the aging Dungeon keeper and a swashbuckling female lizard in thigh high boots. Or maybe it's the struggle between good and evil, as embodied by the Dust King and the Grand Khan (formerly known as Marvin and Herbert) Just read it! Read them all! Buy them used, new, whatever it takes. Dungeon is mort. Long live Dungeon! PS: If in later years, my son betrays a preference for tightly corseted plump ladies with beautiful catlike eyes and a really tiny schnozz, we'll know why...
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New Girl Law Drafting a Future for Cambodia
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
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, January 11, 2015
Small but mighty, New Girl Law should be required reading for Westerners traveling to Southeast Asia, young feminists, and anyone sporting a garment tagged 'made in Cambodia'. The author, activist Anne Elizabeth Moore, moved into her young subjects' Phnom Penh dorm, to get their perspective on the Chbap Srei, a 17th-century treatise that determines a code of conduct for Cambodian women. (Tellingly, the rule book for Cambodian men is much less weighty and restrictive.) Moore and her new friends hang around each other's dorm rooms, sharing snacks and stories, and eventually draft a more enlightened code of conduct that emphasizes education, self-reliance, and gender parity.
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More If You've Got It: Five Plays from Theater Oobleck
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Dave Buchen and Jeffrey Dorchen and David Isaacson
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, November 13, 2014
If you took every thought provoking, prickly, hilarious, joyfully anarchistic play Theater Oobleck has produced over the years, and laid them side by side beginning at the theater's back wall, they would leap off the stage, and race up the aisle, to plant their boots in the well-fed rumps of bourgeois audience members hastening to the exit in consternation. Long live Theater Oobleck! I love their big brains!
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