Selected by Martin Filler
Ongoing
Merriman’s Restaurant
Merriman's Restaurant, Kamuela
Perhaps the best food on the big island of Hawaii can be found at Merriman’s Waimea, near the Kohala Coast’s resorts.
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October 1, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Tyrant Banderas: Translating Valle-Inclán
Montclair State University, Montclair
Valle-Inclán’s classic novel of dictatorship was last translated into English in 1929. Peter Bush will discuss the process of translating it afresh for the twenty-first century.
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October 2, 2012, 6:30 pm
Tyrant Banderas Book Launch
Instituto Cervantes , New York
Peter Bush will introduce his new translation of Valle-Inclán's seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, which reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is memorably grotesque and disturbing. The event is free and open to the public.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘The Master’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Paul Thomas Andersen’s muscular account of an American cult leader and his disciple is likely the best and certainly the most ambitious movie that Hollywood will give us this year
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
April 13, 2012 – October 7, 2012
Comme des Garçons: White Drama
Les Docks, Paris
This exhibition of Comme des Garçons’ spring/summer 2012 collection—“White Drama”—is one of the first ever to display a designer’s current line.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 10, 2012, 7 pm
‘The Ancient Law’
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
It’s The Jazz Singer’s Austrian counterpart, albeit silent and here accompanied by multimedia artist Thomas Köner performing live.
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October 11, 2012, 12:30 pm
A talk by Peter Bush, translator of Tyrant Banderas, Baruch College (NYC)
Baruch cam Baruch Vertical Campus, New York
The translator will discuss his experience of reading the novel and the challenges of writing a new translation – the first into English since 1929 – of Valle’s Cubist, cartoon and camp representation of dictatorship in Latin America.
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October 11, 2012, 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Raise a Glass to Kingsley: A Celebration of Kingsley Amis with NYRB Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Housingworks Bookstore Cafe, New York
To celebrate the re-release of two books by iconic British author Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and The Old Devils, New York Review of Books Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present an evening dedicated to his life and work.
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