Readings

Lars von Trier’s new film is as provocative as it promised to be and as cruel as one would expect. Even still, we give him the benefit of the doubt that he made it for reasons other than tormenting and offending.

What if the afterlife is just as uneventful as this one? Three fictions—two films, one novel—imagine the hereafter as a monotonous slog through the same old nonsense.

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