Readings

How Far Away is Ramallah?

There is music and rhythm and beauty and joy to be found in both Jerusalem and Ramallah—despite the outrages, honest and otherwise, readily available in the space between.

Claire Denis: Studies in Desire, Heartbreak, and Bodies in Motion

This month TIFF celebrates the work of the ever rigorous and challenging French director, whose Beau Travail was a fixture on just about every "Best of" list of the 2000s. Here follows a cheat sheet to the one director everybody ought to know.

What Runs in the Blood?

Lawrence Hill, author of the bestselling Book of Negroes and the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice, admits he's long been obsessed with blood, and the myriad questions and themes it gives rise to. With this year's Massey Lecture, Hill explores the subject that's shadowed so much of his life.