"This week, our Gabfest panel includes Steve and guest hosts Nadira Goffe and Laura Miller with a typically eclectic collection of topics. First up, Dana hops on the call to decode the unspoken truths and dream imagery of Kleber Mendonça Filho's film The Secret Agent. Set in 1970s Recife, Brazil and starring a very charming Wagner Moura, the film is a heterodox brew of political thriller, magical realism, and attentive character study about the everyday surreality of life under dictatorship."
"Laura: The novels of Robert Jackson Bennett in his Shadow of the Leviathan series including Hugo-winning The Tainted Cupand A Drop of Corruption. Steve: The Substack essay " The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls Down " by Adam Bonica about the cost of American exceptionalism. And a bonus one from Dana: Pictures of Ghosts, the documentary by The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho about Recife, Brazil in the 1970s."
Dana decodes the unspoken truths and dream imagery of Kleber Mendonça Filho's film The Secret Agent, set in 1970s Recife, Brazil, and starring Wagner Moura. The film blends political thriller, magical realism, and attentive character study to portray everyday surreality under dictatorship. The panel examines A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a grounded, surprisingly funny Game of Thrones prequel set 100 years before the original, notable for its lack of dragons. The conversation turns to "Gluttons for Punishment," about UPenn professor Justin McDaniel's extreme, unorthodox measures to compel students to finish books. A Slate Plus bonus features Laura on the secret pleasures of wood stacking. Endorsements span music, novels, essays, and a documentary.
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