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☆ Steven Soderbergh’s Year in Reading
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Every January on his website Extension765.com, the prolific director Steven Soderbergh looks back at the previous year and posts a day-by-day account of every movie and TV series watched, every play attended and every book read. In 2023, Soderbergh tackled more than 80 (!) books, and on this week’s episode, he and the host Gilbert Cruz talk about some of his highlights. Here are the books discussed on this week’s episode:“How to Live: A Life of Montaigne,” by Sarah Bakewell“Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining,’” by Lee Unkrich and J.W. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.
Persons: Steven Soderbergh, Soderbergh, Gilbert Cruz, Montaigne, ”, Sarah Bakewell “ Stanley Kubrick’s, Lee Unkrich, George, Martha, Philip Gefter, Donald E, Westlake “, Chimamanda Ngozi, Randall Jarrell “, Robert M, Sapolsky
☆ Chibuike Ifedilichukwu: Nigerian upcycling artist creates portraits from waste
  + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Aneta Felix | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
But where others see trash, 37-year-old Nigerian artist Chibuike Ifedilichukwu sees opportunity. He creates portraits of celebrities from discarded aluminum cans, making a bold statement about waste management in the country. One day in 2021, while accompanying his wife to an antenatal clinic, Ifedilichukwu says he stumbled upon a pile of dumped plastic strips. I found that nobody does this pattern of art,” Ifedilichukwu told CNN. Although he wears gloves when he works, he says he’s been cut many times by sharp-edged cans, craft knives, scissors, needles and steel wire.
Persons: Chibuike Ifedilichukwu, Ifedilichukwu, “, ” Ifedilichukwu, Chibuike, ”, Cardi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Don Jazzy, Greta Thunberg, Leonardo di Caprio, Davido, Ifedilichukwu Ifedilichukwu, he’s, “ It’s Organizations: CNN —, CNN, Ifedilichukwu Locations: Nigeria, Anambra, Awka
☆ Opinion | Complicated Stories of Affirmative Action
  + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “On Race and Academia,” by John McWhorter (newsletter, July 4):Professor McWhorter’s account of being placed in positions for which he was less than qualified as a result of a series of institutions’ attempts at affirmative action is undoubtedly based on both his experience and analysis. Unfortunately, it reinforces the prevailing narrative that affirmative action gives less qualified people of color opportunities denied to more qualified people who are white. The writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reminds us in her TED Talk “The Danger of the Single Story” that we need a balance of stories. Joy Reid recently shared her affirmative action story on MSNBC. Andrea Haynes JohnsonLas VegasThe writer is an adviser for Courageous Conversation, which provides consulting services on racial equity.
Persons: ”, John McWhorter, Chimamanda Ngozi, Joy Reid, Reid, Let’s, Andrea Haynes Johnson Las Organizations: TED, MSNBC, Harvard Locations: Andrea Haynes Johnson Las Vegas
☆ Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings
  + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | More About Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
THE VEGAN, by Andrew LipsteinWe should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote, and at this point in climate change, we should probably also all be vegans (at least for part of the week). But in Andrew Lipstein’s ingenious second novel, avoiding meat and dairy is a sign that something has gone seriously wrong. Sort of like when Rosemary Woodhouse found herself nibbling on a raw chicken heart, part of the mounting evidence she was pregnant with Satan’s child, but in reverse. Like “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Vegan” features young marrieds mulling conception and living in a highly desirable part of New York City — then, a four-room apartment in a Victorian building on the West Side of Manhattan; now, a brick townhouse in Cobble Hill— and a dinner party where a guest is effectively roofied. Only here the perpetrator is the protagonist, one Herschel Caine (which, were you to consult a naming dictionary, translates roughly to “deer killer”): partner at a quantitative hedge fund, with $2.8 million in his bank account, growing qualms about his line of work and a keep-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety about his neighbors, one of whom is a Guggenheim.
Persons: Andrew Lipstein, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Lipstein’s, Rosemary Woodhouse, nibbling, New York City —, Herschel Caine Organizations: Guggenheim Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Cobble
☆ ‘Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman’ Review: Tradition Interrupted
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
If a viewer wants to kick off his algorithms and settle into that elusive “something different” on Netflix, a welcome destination would be “ Elesin Oba : The King’s Horseman,” the last movie by the Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker Biyi Bandele , who died in August. His “Half of a Yellow Sun” with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandiwe Newton was a successful adaptation of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel back in 2013, but “Horseman” is something else, a combination celebration of and elegy for cultural autonomy and something of a cheeky homage to African cinema. Based on the play “Death and the King’s Horseman” by Wole Soyinka (winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature), the story is based on actual events during World War II, when Nigeria was an occupied British colony. The eponymous horseman is a Yoruba chief who is about to commit ritual suicide; the people’s king has been dead a month and it is time for Elesin Oba (the lusty Odunlade Adekola ) to follow his ruler into the afterlife (lest the king be left to wander and bring ill on his people). The British, as directed by the colonial magistrate, Simon Pilkings ( Mark Elderkin ), think suicide is a profoundly bad idea and set out to save Elesin’s life, even if it means killing people in the process.
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