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It’s also the title of an edge-of-your-seat film adapted from Indian author Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel. Like the novel, the film is filled with socio-political commentary whose narrative arc bends towards the injustices which set apart the haves and have-nots. Not just in India, although this is where the film is set, but everyplace where a poor person has ever said or thought of saying: “To think of this again makes me so angry, that I might go out and cut the throat of a rich man right now”. Those are the words of protagonist Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav)....

Photo by Ilja Keizer Review: 'The Discomfort of Evening,' by , translated by Michele Hutchison FICTION: A 10-year-old girl tries to come to grips with her brother's death in a family of dysfunction and pain. By Marion Winik Special to the Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 — 10:35AM The Booker International Prize has gone to the youngest author ever, a 29-year-old Dutch writer named , who uses they/them pronouns, and their translator Michele Hutchison. One judge described “The Discomfort of Evening” as “a tender and visceral evocation of a childhood caught between shame and salvation.” Having just finished the book,...

CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – If you’re going to be on a trip for a few days, you might plan to bring a small suitcase for all your clothes and other items.  But what if it’s one of those trips where you spend most of your time walking from place to place—maybe you’re sightseeing a big city like Washington DC, London, or Hong Kong—and you plan to stay wherever you find yourself.  It isn’t really practical to drag a suitcase around all day; what you really need is a good travel backpack instead.  Is the new IndieGoGo-funded travel backpack from Pakt the...