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Day Night Day Night (from five years ago, but a real stunner, underrated and a wonderful study of Nudge of top of everything else)
Samsara (makes sense on a big screen only, I suspect)
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
Margaret
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Take This Waltz
Circo , Mexican circus movie
Your Sister’s Sister (Straussian)
The Raid: Redemption (better Indonesian martial arts you will not see)
The Three Stooges
The Dictator
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (boring for most people, big screen only I suspect)
A Separation
Expecting Better: How to Fight the Pregnancy Establishment with Facts .
Solomon is a very smart guy. But overall this book leaves one with a sense of being tired of the value of the individual, written by an author overwhelmed by what comes across as, despite Solomon’s quest for nobility, a rogue’s gallery of misfits, baroque style, and without the writing itself coming to terms with the book’s own underlying emotional tenor. Is it unfair to read this as still being, ultimately, a book about depression ?
That is from Andrew Solomon’s new book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity .
I have just pre-ordered his forthcoming book Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It .
Bach, St. John’s Passion, conducted by Monica Huggett , with a stripped-down orchestra, not just a stripped-down choir. Here is one good review , here is another .
The Gramophone best classical CD of the year was Heinrich Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien , conducted by Lionel Meunier, which I enjoy very much.
Busoni’s Doktor Faust , conducted by Adrian Boult.
John Adams, Harmonielehre, Short Ride in a Fast Machine .
Hector Berlioz, Requiem , conducted by Paul McCreesh.
Havergal Brian, The Gothic Symphony , conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
That is the new book by the excellent Gurcharan Das and it makes an excellent case for the relevance of a classical liberal approach to the problems of India. Note the subtitle! You can buy the book here .
That is a new and forthcoming book from Wayne A. Leighton and Edward L. Lopez, and the subtitle is The Economic Engine of Political Change . Here is my blurb: