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  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Houman Barekat

    Holly Dawson was suffering from seizures and having trouble retaining information and remembering faces. Brain scans revealed a damaged hippocampus and a tumour, probably benign. To improve her memory, doctors asked her to look at strings of numbers, and then reel them off backwards – an exercise she likens to “Cognitive Crufts”. She ruminates on the relationship between language, memory and time: “three gifts, co-dependent, that create and sustain each other”.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Houman Barekat

    The band's frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a little foolish. Radiohead meets the Bard: a mash-up for the ages - and kryptonite for purists, you might think. But a new, dance-infused take on "Hamlet," set to the band's 2003 LP, "Hail to the Thief," which opened in Manchester, England, on Wednesday, is no mere gimmick.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Houman Barekat

    The unnamed narrator of William Rayfet Hunter’s debut novel, a mixed-race aspiring musician from Manchester, is plunged into an unfamiliar milieu when his posh university friend, Lily, invites him to spend a summer at her parents’ chateau in the French countryside. There’s an undercurrent of unease – at one point he is mistaken for staff – but the family are welcoming.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Houman Barekat

    "My Master Builder," a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama. When a big star appears in a conspicuously undercooked show, what rankles is the apparent cynicism - the conceited presumption that the sheer aura of an individual talent will compensate for any shortcomings.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Houman Barekat

    The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett's bleak one-man play. For Gary Oldman, it is a homecoming of sorts.

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Houman Barekat
Houman Barekat @HoumanBarekat
3 Jun 25

RT @SatireRedacted: A great review essay framed around the questions of meaning, the intrinsic value of literature, and writing difficult w…

Houman Barekat
Houman Barekat @HoumanBarekat
29 May 25

RT @John_Attridge: Hi yes this is more of a cri de coeur than a question

Houman Barekat
Houman Barekat @HoumanBarekat
7 Apr 25

RT @pourfairelevide: I wrote about Aliocha Coll, the two Attila’s, and the paradox of writing “for the future” in the era of too-late capit…