A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and an extended immersion in the city of Arles, showcasing Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis’ sharp literary mind and invaluable insight.
Jeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really, really hard.
Cast: Akiya Henry, Douggie McMeekin, and Abiona Omouna; Director: Jay Miller
Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic "Green Book" — the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, it also serves as an imperfect family album, tracing a black male protagonist’s attempts to navigate his many departures and returns home.
Being a quadruplet can make it hard to stand out from the crowd. Becca’s three brothers all have something that makes them...them. Becca is the only one with nothing to make her special. But when she finds a tiny, sick piglet on the side of the road, Becca knows this is it – this is her thing. She names the piglet Saucy and soon, Saucy is as big a part of the family as anyone else.
A woman describes a series of encounters in the ordinary course of her life: running into an ex at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with guests, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with cancer. The woman finds each person needs the same thing: an audience for their experiences.
In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, and the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old, these stories form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.
An old man rages in his nursing home, a rich man is haunted by a hog, an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker, and Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, If I Had Two Wings is a chorus of voices and visions marked by physicality and spirit.
Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, and the border itself. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, Eduardo C. Corral writes portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority, solidifying his place in the expanding ecosystem of American poetry.
Lilia Liska has outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own version of events.
Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 70s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of the 80s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six is a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture.
